Crossword clues for loosestrife
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Loosestrife \Loose"strife`\ (l[=oo]s"str[imac]f`), n. (Bot.)
The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color.
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Any species of the genus Lythrum, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers.
--Gray.False loosestrife, a plant of the genus Ludwigia, which includes several species, most of which are found in the United States.
Tufted loosestrife, the plant Lysimachia thyrsiflora, found in the northern parts of the United States and in Europe.
--Gray.
Wiktionary
n. Any of certain flowering plants of the genus ''Lythrum'' and ''Lysimachia'', which are not closely related.
WordNet
n. any of numerous herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lythrum
any of various herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lysimachia
Wikipedia
Loosestrife is a common name for plants within two different genera:
- Lythrum
- Lysimachia
Usage examples of "loosestrife".
She passed the old railway bridge which crossed the run-off: it was pretty in summer, with loosestrife and nettles and long grass.
I would walk miles any day to see a fine cluster, as I would to see the shining of purple loosestrife by the water edge, or white lilies floating upon the still depth.
Over the years I had added border gardens along the stone walls, filled with day lilies and nicotiana, astilbe and asters, and had replaced an acre of untamed weed with a wildflower field that threw up a colorful sea of poppies, loosestrife, and cosmos.
It looked over a green slope to the ripples of the river gleaming between sedges and purple loosestrife and swaying feathers of meadowsweet.
The borders blazed with purple loosestrife, golden rod and ox eye daisies.
A winding stream, a thin intermittency of sky blue and foam, glittered amidst a thick margin of reeds and loosestrife and overhanging willows, along the centre of a sinuous pennant of meadow.
It was only in backwater operations like Loosestrife House or the Bluebell-Mallow Cooperative that you heard someone whistling or singing, or saw people stopping to converse within sight of one of the ruling clan.
The horses too were asleep in the purple loosestrife, and there was an intense peace over all things.
A wind, fresh and cool, blew from the west, sweeping over the plain, hissing into the crests of the yellow broom and purple loosestrife, and bending them into lines of colour that chased each other like waves over the grey-green moorland.
There, too, the yellow loosestrife pushes up its tall slender stalks to the top of the low willow-bushes, that the bright yellow flowers may emerge from the shadow.
Once more his hand stole up to the collar on his neck and his thumb passed over the inscription: Stygean Loosestrife, property of Anksha.
Along its further side the riparian plants grew thickly, so that it was separated from the river by a kind of hedge of purple loosestrife, great willow herb, fleabane, figwort and hemp agrimony, here and there already in bloom.
Besides the Cowslip and the Primrose, this family includes the little Scarlet Pimpernel (Anagallis), as truly a herald of warm summer weather as the Primrose is of spring, the Yellow Loosestrife and the Moneywort (Lysimachia vulgaris and Nummularia), the handsome Water Violet (Hottonia) and the nodding Cyclamen or Sowbread, all of which have medicinal value to a greater or lesser degree.
The Yellow Loosestrife, which is in no way related to the Purple Loosestrife, has often been known as the Yellow Willow Herb, Herb Willow, or Willow Wort, as if it belonged to the true Willow Herbs (which are quite a different family - Onagraceae).
The Yellow Loosestrife is a tall, handsome plant, from 2 to 3 or even 4 feet high, found as a rule on shady banks or crowning the herbage of the stream-side vegetation.