Purple Loosestrife
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The scene is breathtakingly beautiful, a thick brush of purple flowers blankets
Canada's wetlands. This blanket silences the expected sounds of the wetland
environment, birds chirping, ducks splashing, insects buzzing and animals
thriving. This unnatural silence is disturbing, the favourite flowe ....
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.... along the New England seaboard. Purple loosestrife seeds were also
found in sheep and livestock feed that was imported from Europe during this
period. This new organism was introduced to a new habitat free from traditional
parasites, predators and competitors, purple loosestrife thrived in the
environmental conditions and by 1880 was rapidly spreading north and west
through the canal and marine routes. Purple loosestrife stands also increased
due to the importation of seeds and root ....
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