A garden can appear totally fine and calm on the surface while a quiet invasion brews and builds underground. One tiny weed sprouts, another follows, and suddenly an aggressive plant starts pushing ...

Meet the most common botanical interlopers you're likely to find in your garden or vegetable patch, and learn how to treat each.

I recently discovered that what I thought were beautiful flowers in my yard are actually noxious weeds. Can you explain how to identify noxious weeds and why they are harmful? Spring has sprung, and ...

Even worse are rhizome spreaders like ground elder (Aegopodium podagraria) and mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris), which several readers identified, some after months of confusion. Reader Tricia in ...

Environmental officials in West Michigan are putting a new spin on the phrase "fight fire with fire." The Barry, Calhoun, ...

The mile-a-minute weed can grow over trees and shrubs, invade hayfields and orchards, and its seeds survive in soil for six ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Wrangling weeds may sound simple, but during National Invasive Species Awareness Week (NISAW) it becomes a focused effort to protect Florida’s native landscapes one invasive plant ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - Mesa County is warning residents about a noxious weed species called flowering rush. Flowering rush is a rare species of noxious weed that puts out a chemical that ...