Hey gang,
I'm looking for a little bit of help from someone across the pond.
Basically, I'm looking for someone to take a picture for me of a
particular plant in it's native habitat (which is most of Europe).
The reason I need a picture? I'm a high school science teacher, and
I'm involved in a bit of an ongoing ecology project with my classes.
See, settlers brought over a plant called Purple Loosestrife to the
Americas and planted it for use in the honey industry (among other
things). It's now spread like wildfire because nothing native to the
Americas eats it. It outcompetes native plants and chokes them out.
Luckily this plant can only thrive in wetland environments, which
include drainige ditches alongside the road (one of the main reasons
they can be found in EVERY state . . . )
At any rate, I've begun a website dedicated to this little project
(that will take a decade or more to clean up on our particular site),
and was hoping that I might be able to include a picture or two of what
this stuff looks like in its own NATIVE environment (i.e. anywhere in
the Europe). There are some pictures on my website to help you
understand what it looks like, if you don't already know what it looks
like.
If your interested in helping, please drop me a line at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have one or two more pictures on
identification of loosestrife, but I don't have copyright to them, so
won't be posting them to my webpage . . . (I'm trying to do this entire
website with proper photo's and copyrights.)
Thanks for reading,
IL Bill
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