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Liz Williams "Loosestrife" (Interzone #193 Spring)
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It was only when I returned home to Google that I discovered that these are fields of Purple Loosestrife, an invasive plant species that is wrecking havoc and depriving habitat to friendlier species.
Steve Poses: On the Road: Farm Stands of the Hudson River Valley, NY Steve Poses 2010
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The Viking-based Corban Loosestrife series -- The Soul Thief (2002), The Witches 'Kitchen (2004), The Serpent Dreamer (2005), and Varanger (2008) -- would be a good place to start, since these do edge into fantasy a bit -- though of course it's not fantasy from the points of view of the characters we're following.
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If any locals have some (fager)fredløs (Loosestrife), please let me know what kind of bribes you'll need to donate some to me.
More garden work! magnio 2009
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Monday afternoon after work I went down and picked up some things, including a book of poems, Loosestrife, by Stephen Dunn, whose understated, good-humored, philosophically grounded poems have always given me pleasure.
Archive 2009-06-01 Bruce Schauble 2009
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Monday afternoon after work I went down and picked up some things, including a book of poems, Loosestrife, by Stephen Dunn, whose understated, good-humored, philosophically grounded poems have always given me pleasure.
Dunn on Creativity Bruce Schauble 2009
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Loosestrife readily impacts native plants by out-competing them, forming dense, impenetrable stands, that are unsuitable for cover or nesting sites.
Exotic species 2007
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The story starts with Aquarium owners who bought decorative European plants, known as Purple Loosestrife and Eurasian Milfoil.
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Another common, lower-growing species, the Bulb-bearing Loosestrife (_L. terrestris_), blooms from July to September and shows a decided preference for swamps and ditches throughout a range which extends from
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891
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Our slender, symmetrical, common loosestrife, with its whorls of leaves and little star-shaped blossoms on thread-like pedicels at regular intervals up the stem, is not even distantly related to the wonderful Purple Loosestrife.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891
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