Lythraceae

Purple Loosestrife is a highly invasive non-native plant that threatens significant portions of Canada and the United States marsh, swamp, and coastal habitats. It has many common names such as spiked loosestrife or purple lythrum and its scientific name is Lythrum salicaria. By crowding native wetland species, purple loosestrife reduces biodiversity, eliminates food sources for marsh animals and changes water flow patterns. It can grow 1 – 8 feet tall with a width range between 3-6 feet. Numerous reddish-purple stems grow from a single woody root mass. The plant contains a 1 inch flower with 6 pinkish-purple petals and a yellow-white center. The leaves are long and narrow with pointed tips and smooth edges. They are opposite and attached directly…

vaginal area, as if a hernia would protrude; and swelling resembling an umbilical hernia. Chest symptoms include: clothing causing a crushing sensation; this sensation is sometimes accompanied by sighing; and pain between the shoulders. Skin ailments like: itching palms; sensation of pimples breaking out; and a jaundice complexion. Extremities: feel heavy, as if a load is bared; pain around the shoulders and in all finger joints; tearing in the knee; and convulsive movements. The first and…

I. quamoclit (Lowell and Lucansky 1990). In Cressa cretica differentiation of internal phloem occurs adjacent to the inner side of the protoxylem, but does not differentiate against the xylem tissue in the younger internodes (Fig2A,C). Only phloem was produced internally and there was no outward production of xylem. Lowell and Lucansky (1986) had reported internal cambium in Ipomoea hederifolia that was functionally unidirectional, producing only internal phloem. In present study, Cressa cretica…