In the gloom Anthony could make out the tall reeds, and the loosestrife and willowherb against them, that marked the course of the stream where he had caught trout, as a boy; and against the western sky, as he turned in his saddle, rose up the high windy hills where he had hawked with Hubert so many years before.
"By What Authority?"
Robert Hugh Benson
There Walter showed her where a brook bubbled clear from the fountain-head; by its brink, blue veronicas grew, and tall yellow loosestrife, and tasselled purple heads of great English eupatory.
"The Woman Who Did"
Grant Allen
The wild-flowers are willowherb, meadow-sweet, and loosestrife.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith