Subject: Loosestrife (Was: Montlake Fill yesterday evening)
Date: Jun 16 09:54:33 1995
From: Serge Le Huitouze - serge at cs.sfu.ca


Susan Collicott writes:

> Found Stuart's work - wow! That's quite a pile of loosestrife. After
> studying the plant (so that we can spot it from now on), we started
> noticing it everywhere. I hadn't realized just exactly how
> incredibly insidious this stuff is! Looks like we could really clear
> that pond, if we all got down there for 3 or 4 evenings.

I gather there is a native species of Loosestrife (sorry, no latine name
here).

Is it common ?

Is it easy to tell from the "invader" _Lythrum salicaria_ ?


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