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UK
/lˈuːsɪstɹˌaɪf/
]
[ US /ˈɫuˌstɹaɪf, ˈɫusˌstɹaɪf/ ]
[ US /ˈɫuˌstɹaɪf, ˈɫusˌstɹaɪf/ ]
NOUN
- any of numerous herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lythrum
- any of various herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lysimachia
How To Use loosestrife In A Sentence
- The margins support a range of wetland plants including brookweed, arrowhead and purple loosestrife.
- In B. C (Canada) the salicaire (purple loosestrife) is a Very Bad Plant, because it chokes out everything else in bogs especially. Trouver - French Word-A-Day
- Christina Loosestrife Herb" is an important Chinese medicine for the treatment of liver and gall calculi as well as urethra calculi. It has a wide clinic application.
- When I called my reeve to enquire about the RM of Reynolds' spray program I was told something about the need to control purple loosestrife and the costs associated with mowing versus spraying.
- The garden is actually getting rather tired as the summer progresses, but I still have yellow loosestrife, some alstroemeria, alchemilla mollis (ladies' mantle), meadow-sweet, astrantia (this year for the first time in more than one colour), red and white valerian, lavender, veronica and butterfly blue scabious. Weekend pleasures
- Other locally common tannin-rich plants include blackberry, raspberry, rose, lady's mantle, agrimony, meadowsweet, and strawberry (all members of the rose family), geraniums, purple loosestrife, and sumacs.
- Try yellow flag iris, purple loosestrife and the beautiful golden glow of the kingcup. Times, Sunday Times
- Wildflowers here include water parsnip, fringed loosestrife, and hedge nettle.
- Place the freshly cut stems in a bottle of water and place in contact with the defoliated loosestrife plants.
- So I happily planted my new garden with that gooseneck loosestrife, white blooming mint, Silver King artimesia, snow-in-summer.