– Short lived perennial growing from 1-foot to 3-feet tall. – Flowers are purplish-pink, urn or vase-shaped, about 1/2-inch to 1-inch tall with dark comb-like bracts under the bloom. – Knapweed ...

Hundreds of little flower weevils are moving in on spotted knapweed plants in the Bunker Hill Superfund site, where the purple-blossomed noxious weed has infested areas disturbed during Superfund ...

LANSING, Mich. – Michigan agricultural officials are seeking public comment on whether to permit the release of weevils to control invasive spotted knapweed. The plant displaces native species and ...

I had a backyard experience several weeks ago that brought to mind the quote from Sir Walter Scott, “Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!” I discovered an insect I had ...

Spotted knapweed is a prohibited noxious weed, meaning a land owner is legally obligated to control it on his/her land. Spotted knapweed grows well in dry sandy soils. Spotted knapweed grows 1-3 feet ...

A recent study sheds new light on the control of Russian knapweed, an invasive plant found in the Western US. A recent study featured in the journal Invasive Plant Science and Management sheds new ...

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Farmer Joe Hoffman has been battling a problem. The problem is insidious: an invasive weed that has been in Michigan since 1911. Though not a new invasive plant, the knapweed has been taking over ...

CHIMACUM — The newest noxious weed-killing warriors in Jefferson and Clallam counties don’t come from a spray gun or jail chain gang. They have funny-looking Latin names and love to dine on non-native ...

As spring's rains and warmer temperatures bring forth a new growth of grass to the Rocky Mountain Front, a more insidious plant is attempting to take over the landscape and push out the nutritious ...

Romaldkirk, Teesdale: One common name for this plant is hardheads and thanks to picture-winged fly larvae some heads are harder than others When I walked this stretch of the Tees Valley railway path ...