Henbit has distinctive purple flowers and round, scalloped leaves. It thrives in cool, moist conditions. Blue vervain is a ...

Discover the truth about the vibrant purple flower that is an invasive weed in some areas. Explore native alternatives that ...

By BROOKE KNICK Soil Conservation Technician Natural Resources Conservation Service    Spotted knapweed is a prohibited noxious weed, meaning a land owner is legally obligated to control it on ...

Photos courtesy MISC In 2003, Lori Buchanan, manager of the Molokai/Maui Invasive Species Committee, investigated a glossy-leaved plant with pinkish-purple flowers. She had seen it growing as a ...

Stems are 1 to 4 feet tall, ridged, branching above. Leaves are alternate, lacking petioles, oblong or lance-shaped, divided into spiny-tipped irregular lobes. Flowers are unisexual, on separate ...

December’s Weed of the Month is Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii). This species is a specially regulated plant on Minnesota’s Noxious Weed list.

When wild turnip flowers, a tall upright flower stem forms, and leaves present near the top of this flower stem are quite smooth, lacking the bristly hairs of rosette leaves. A similar weed, wild ...

They are only weeds because we, humans, deem them so. A weed is any plant growing in an undesirable place, so what does that ...

Flowers resemble those of the potato ... it is a common garden weed. A rounded, bushy, much branched annual, 1/2 to 3 feet tall, reproducing by seed. Stems are usually red or purple striped. Leaves ...