Louie "Sucker Mouth" Sea Lamprey
Diego " El Grande" Brazilian Elodea
Zeke "the Prowler" Zebra Mussel
Purple "Lucky" Loosestrife
Rusty "the Bully" Crayfish
Rocco "Ravenous" Ruffe
Fiton "the Offender" Fishhook Flea
Clyde "the Smacker" Silver Carp
Gabby "the Lowlife" Round Goby
Wilma "the Creeper" Watermilfoil

Purple Loosestrife

Purple Loosestrife Fact Sheets

Purple loosestrife in Michigan: biology, ecology, and management.
Michigan Sea Grant
http://nsgl.gso.uri.edu/michu/michug97002.pdf

Exotics in the Chesapeake: exotic plants.
Maryland Sea Grant
http://nsgl.gso.uri.edu/mdu/mdug99003.pdf

Purple Loosestrife: What You Should Know, What You Can Do
Minnesota Sea Grant
http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/exotics/purple.html

Purple Loosestrife: An Exotic Menace
New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services
http://des.nh.gov/organization/commissioner/pip/factsheets/bb/documents/bb-45.pdf

Purple Loosestrife
Aquatic Plant Management Society
http://www.apms.org/plants/loosestrife.htm

Purple Loosestrife
National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/fact/lysa1.htm

Species Abstracts of Highly Disruptive Exotic Plants at Effigy Mounds National Monument, Lythrum salicaria
National Prairie Wildlife Research Center

http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/plants/exoticab/effilyth.htm

Purple Loosestrife ID Card

http://www.iiseagrant.org/catalog/ais/plwach.htm

Distribution Map

http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/SpeciesMap.aspx?SpeciesID=239

Web Links

Biological Control: A Guide to Natural Enemies in North America, Galerucella calmariensis
Cornell University
http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/ent/biocontrol/weedfeeders/galerucella.html

Biological Control of Purple Loosestrife Program
Illinois Natural History Survey
http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/research/loosestrife/

Purple Loosestrife in the Great Lakes Region
Great Lakes Information Network (GLIN)
http://www.great-lakes.net/envt/flora-fauna/invasive/loosestf.html

Purple Loosestrife Info Center
Manitoba Purple Loosestrife Project
http://www.ducks.ca/purple/

Purple Pages
Michigan Sea Grant
http://www.miseagrant.umich.edu//ais/pp/index.html