Among the plants were several close relatives of purple loosestrife.

A. If you find a way to get rid of purple loosestrife, share it.

More evidence is needed to rate the effectiveness of purple loosestrife for these uses.

Purple loosestrife, for example, will be banned in Minnesota by 2009.

Efforts are being made to prevent the introduction of the purple loosestrife.

In other words, do not plant purple loosestrife, ever.

Purple loosestrife provides a model of successful biological pest control.

One prime example is purple loosestrife (Lythrum), which has become a major problem.

That conclusion will surprise no one who is familiar with the biology of purple loosestrife.

It is not known if purple loosestrife is safe or what the side effects might be.

At this time there is not enough scientific information to determine an appropriate range of doses for purple loosestrife.

Five species of beetle use purple loosestrife as their natural food source and they can do significant damage to the plant.

Yet many gardeners still buy purple loosestrife and plant it in perennial borders.

They raise beetles that destroy a weed called purple loosestrife.

The eight-acre lake looked beautiful, with purple loosestrife in bloom along its banks.

"Thirty years later, this was the epicenter of the purple loosestrife explosion.

Some of these plants include garlic mustard, purple loosestrife and Canada thistle.

It has been introduced in North America as a biological control agent for purple loosestrife.

Notable examples include water hyacinth, salt cedar, and purple loosestrife.

These are followed by purple loosestrife and meadowsweet.

In late years, the marshes have suffered from an invasion of Purple Loosestrife.

Purple Loosestrife is a plant that is invasive to waterways.

Purple loosestrife, Lythrum salicaria, is the scourge of the natural world.

Probably one of the best-known plant outlaws is purple loosestrife (lythrum).

Two wild ones that should be discouraged at the outset are purple loosestrife and Canadian goldenrod.

Purple loosestrife, Lythrum salicaria, is the scourge of the natural world.

One of the most noted of these wild species is the purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria).

For example, many gardeners may be familiar with the troublesome purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria).

They feed on the leaves of purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) and are mostly nocturnal.

Hylobius transversovittatus seems to be host-specific to purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria).

Lythrum salicaria (I)

It is native to the Old World where both adults and larvae feed on purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria).

Still earlier, in the 1820's, the European weed purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) arrived, infesting and corrupting wetlands.

The larvae feed on Trifolium, Vicia, Lathyrus and Lythrum salicaria.

Examples of reeds present include typha latifolia, phragmites australis, mentha aquatica, and lythrum salicaria.

The Lythrum salicaria plants derived from Ithaca also grew taller and were significantly less resistant to the root-feeding weevil present over its native range.

Galerucella calmariensis, a leaf beetle, has been introduced in North America as a control agent for purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria).

Black can be made from the flowers and stems of purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), and rich browns from black walnut hulls.

Invasion by purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) is a serious threat to the Arb's wetlands, but so far they are relatively free of this aggressive introduced species.

Other known invasive species include garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) and purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria); these species are being dealt with by using controlled fires.

- Jill Mackie, Narrowsburg, N.Y. A. Gardeners have only recently become aware of the mixed blessing of purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), a stunning bloomer.

Species Profile- Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), National Invasive Species Information Center, United States National Agricultural Library.

Different plants are associated with this vegetation, increasing bodiversity to include species such as hemp agrimony Eupatorium cannabinum, purple loosestrife Lythrum salicaria and great hairy willowherb Epilobium hirsutum.

Although common reed (Phragmites communis) and purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) degrade wetlands throughout the watershed, these two plants seem much more widespread in Connecticut, affecting a great number of wetland acres there.

Restoration work in the Canebrake Ecological Reserve and South Fork Valley includes removing damaging invasive species, such as tamarisk (Tamarix) trees and exotic purple loose-strife (Lythrum salicaria).

The spread of invasive species remains a problem at Jokers Hill, and measures have been taken to control populations of Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata) and Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria).

There are also many plant species that have been transported to the Great Lakes, including Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria and Phragmites australis, both of which are considered to be a threat to native hydrophyte wetland plants.

Botanists believe purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) reached North America in the early 1800's by two routes: seeds buried in ships' ballast that was dumped on the shore at old Northeast ports, and plants imported for medicinal and ornamental use.

Still more extraordinary is the case of the common loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), which has both stamens and styles of three distinct lengths, each flower having two sets of stamens and one style, all of different lengths, and arranged in three different ways:

Aquatic plants - Azolla filiculoides, Caltha palustris, Cyperus papyrus, Eichhornia crassipes, Iris pseudacorus, Lemna minor, Ligularia tussilaginea, Lythrum salicaria, Nelumbo nucifera, Nymphaea, Pistia stratiotes, Salvinia natans, and Trapa natans.