It is a bit late in the season to write about purple loosestrife, but several readers have written to ask (and complain) about its return. Throughout the summer, this is a beautiful plant, with its reddish-purple 2- to 5-foot spikes enhancing the beauty of meadows and wetlands. Now those bright colors have been replaced by the goldenrod's yellow and the aster's purple, but a few of the loosestrifes' elongated leaves are still the bright red they take on for a few weeks each fall.
Many homeowners in the tri-state area still have the plant called purple loosestrife in their landscape. This beautiful flowering plant was commercially sold at nurseries for many decades but is now listed as a noxious weed in most states. As a noxious weed, you cannot sell, offer for sale, or distribute the seeds or the plants of purple loosestrife unless it is a certified sterile or non- aggressive variety. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service encourages those who have purple loosestrife in their home landscape to recognize the ecological impacts this plant has caused and to remove all plants. Purple loosestrife is a wetland perennial from Europe that was introduced into the U.S. in the 1800's as a medicinal herb, nectar plant for honey bees and garden plant. It also arrived here uninten...
DAYTON -- Miami Valley biologists are trying to use a European beetle to keep in check an invasive flower that threatens to choke out hundreds of other native plant species. Michael Enright, Five Rivers Metro Parks conservation biologist and James Amon, Wright State University biology professor gathered Guracella beetles and their eggs from a Lake Erie wetland this spring and distributed them in two area wetlands to control purple loosestrife, a water-loving flowering plant.
Town of West Bend - Lee Krueger has added beetle farmer to his resume, along with maple syrup producer, retired science teacher and invasive plant eliminator. Last week, Krueger enlisted a few volunteers to help him place thousands of European beetles into wetlands at Gilbert Lake, where the insects are expected to eat dense clumps of purple loosestrife, an unwanted European plant.
Donna Ellis and her beetle army are planning their next assault. Sure it's winter and the ground is frozen. But this is when Ellis, an extension educator with the University of Connecticut's plant science department, musters up volunteers to fight the dreaded purple loosestrife, an invasive plant that is muscling out native species in wetlands throughout the state.
: Year the invasive plant was introduced in the U.S. for ornamental and medicinal purposes million: Number of seeds in one plant
Their contents are fiery and uncompromising. A few of the poems, like the title one, cross the line from activist poetry into agitprop. (The "New Citizen Army" is us: "all regulars must be / mindless in the execution of duty.") More often, though, [Greg Delanty] gives elegance and dry wit even to his harshest indictments, as in a poem about the weed loosestrife's invasive march across the countryside, which turns out (surprise!) really to be about something else: "You'll overtake the earth and destroy even yourself. / Ah, our loosestrife, purple plague, beautiful us. Someone in Vermont's gotta write poems about cows. Craftsbury poet [Julia Shipley] does it with economy and sometimes poignancy. It's more accurate to say her chapbook [Herd] is about the farming life. Shipley, a Pennsylva...
THE BORDER INN SPRAWLS across the Utah-Nevada state line like a mirage. It's a frequent gathering place for locals opposed to the Southern Nevada Water Authority's water-export plans. It's also a convenient stopover for visitors to nearby Great Basin National Park, which is dominated by the snow-streaked face of 13,167-foot-high Wheeler Peak, the highest mountain in the Snake Range. Here, [Don Sada] meets up with Krissy Wilson, the native aquatic species coordinator for Utah's Division of Wildlife Resources. "I am so pleased to meet you," she exclaims. "It's like you're the king of mollusks, the god of snails! Wilson first stops at Gandy Warm Springs, where crystalline waters gush from hidden caverns on the shoulders of the northern Snake Range. Lush vegetation (including purple looses...
...Lush vegetation (including purple loosestrife, a colorful invasive) grows along the water's edge...
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