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What are the Native American species of loosestrife?

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The wild marsh plants called loosestrifes (genus Lythrum ) include several native American species with pink or lavender flowers but the tall showy species that blankets moist meadows and swamps with magenta to purple flowers in late summer and autumn is the spiked loosestrife ( L. salicaria ) introduced from Europe and now so widespread as to be a weed.’ ...

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