lysimachia

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Hereabouts are the flowers, tall and plenty--foxgloves and mullein, such as we have at home, and loosestrife (lysimachia), both the yellow and the purple.

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  1. a cosmopolitan genus of plants, including some of the loosestrifes, found in damp or swampy terrain having usually yellow flowers; they are inclined to be invasive.

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  1. loosestrife: a cosmopolitan genus found in damp or swampy terrain having usually yellow flowers; inclined to be invasive

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  • Hereabouts are the flowers, tall and plenty--foxgloves and mullein, such as we have at home, and loosestrife (lysimachia), both the yellow and the purple. —  The Fool Errant
  • Monarda didyma moneywort (see lysimachia) —  Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
  • Near the water's edge, mingling with sedges, flags, marsh-mallows, bur-reed, and alisma, were the golden flowers of the shrubby lysimachia in dense multitudes, while from the canal itself rose many a spike of water-stachys, with here and there blossoming butomus, near the fringe of the banks. —  Two Summers in Guyenne
  • The waysides were red with thyme or purple with heather, and the blooming lysimachia was like a belt of gold around the reedy pools. —  Two Summers in Guyenne
  • Hereabouts are the flowers, tall and plenty -- foxgloves and mullein, such as we have at home, and loosestrife (lysimachia), both the yellow and the purple. —  The Fool Errant
 

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