loosestrife

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alpi Any of certain flowering plants of the genus genera Lythrum and Lysimachia, which are not closely related.
1919, w:Ronald Firbank|Ronald Firbank, w:Valmouth Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 91,

He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.

Most loosestrifes thrive in the northern part of the United States and Canada but only a few make good garden plants for the South.

I grew some peas, loosestrifes, and fleabanes “inules” in profound darkness, beneath two identical receptacles filled with atmospheric air.