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Loosestrife n. (Bot.)

(a)

The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color.

(b)

Any species of the genus Lythrum, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers.

False loosestrife, a plant of the genus Ludwigia, which includes several species, most of which are found in the United States.

Tufted loosestrife, the plant Lysimachia thyrsiflora, found in the northern parts of the United States and in Europe.

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Etymology of 'Loosestrife'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Loosestrife" Quotes from Famous Books

... fastidious. Among the evening primroses the Missouri one is the brightest and biggest; speciosa, white, from Texas, of blossoms the most prolific; glauca, riparia, fruticera, and linearis, all yellow; many others, though perennial, are best treated as annual or biennial. The spiked loosestrife planted by the water's edge of a pond is far finer than in the garden border. It ...

— Scientific American Suppl. No. 299 • Various

Words linked to "Loosestrife" : yellow pimpernel, Lythrum salicaria, Lysimachia quadrifolia, garden loosestrife, purple loosestrife, Lysimachia, fringed loosestrife, hyssop loosestrife, moneywort, Lysimachia terrestris, Lysimachia vulgaris, genus Lysimachia, subshrub, herb, creeping Charlie, Lythrum hyssopifolia, suffrutex, genus Lythrum, Lysimachia nummularia