1919, Ronald Firbank, , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 91,He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.
2008, Allan M. Armitage, Herbaceous Perennial Plants, 3rd Edition, page 672,Most loosestrifes thrive in the northern part of the United States and Canada but only a few make good garden plants for the South.
