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Purple?

A sea of purple flowers covers the swamp at the south end of Oaks Bottom

I've lived in Westmoreland for about a decade now, and I've gone past Oaks Bottom more times than I can think of, but I've never seen such an explosion of purple flowers. Has this been happening every year and I've just missed it, or has global warming pushed some purple-flowering swamp grass up into the Portland area?

—orc Thu Jul 12 22:51:47 2007

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It’s Purple Loosestrife, and it’s the scourge of North American wetlands.

Paul Tomblin Fri Jul 13 05:33:44 2007

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