loose-strife

The river was wide there, a pool of black water with purple loose-strife fringing its banks and a few swan feathers scattered about on the grass.

Polly Samson | The Man Who Fell 2011

Nothing new or startling to report in flora or fauna, but the purple loose-strife becomes more rampant by the day.

Sunday roadkill report jhetley 2006

Goldenrod, various types of clover, Queen Anne's lace, cornflower, and the everlastingly-to-be-damned purple loose-strife blooming.

Drawing lines between Us and Them jhetley 2006

There are many kinds of beauty in the world: beauty of hot suns and delicate mists, of sea and shore, mountain and lake and city; there is the beauty of barren moors and of green orchards, and of flat fertile marshlands where streams run amid a luxuriance of tangled growth, kingcups and meadowsweet and loose-strife and forget-me-nots, and feathery willows and rushes where the reed-warblers sing.

Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland F. J. Widgery

For a space they hung there, brushed by the purple loose-strife that fringed the bank; then the clear imperious summons that marched hand-in-hand with the intoxicating melody imposed its will on Mole, and mechanically he bent to his oars again.

The Wind in the Willows 1908

Lonicera Halliana lonicera species loose-strife lotus lovage luffa

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

On the banks are flowers – yarrow, meadow-sweet, willow herb, loose-strife, and lady's bed-straw.

The Wouldbegoods Edith 1901

At the head of it, where we trod on asphodels and sweet-smelling mints and brushed the young stalks of the loose-strife, stood a rustic bridge partly screened by alders.

The Adventures of Harry Revel Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

So I will only name meadow-sweet, yarrow, loose-strife, lady's bed-straw and willow herb – both the larger and the lesser.

The Wouldbegoods Edith 1901

For there the deserted road which I had been following through the Highlands ran out upon a meadow all abloom with purple loose-strife and golden Saint-John's wort.

The Blue Flower 1902