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Article: Avian use of purple loosestrife dominated habitat relative to other vegetation types in a Lake Huron wetland complex.
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- Wilson Bulletin
- Article date:
- March 1, 1999
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Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) is an exotic, broad-leaved, herbaceous perennial that is common in North American freshwater wetland habitats north of 35 [degrees] N latitude (Thompson 1989). Loosestrife is native to Eurasia where it occurs in freshwater marshes, open stream margins, and alluvial floodplains; it invades similar habitats in North America (Thompson 1989). Common plant associates of loosestrife in North American wetland habitats such as cattails (Typha spp.), reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea), sedges (Carex spp.), and rushes (Juncus spp.) closely resemble its associates in Eurasian wetlands (Thompson et al. 1987). Loosestrife out competes and ...