Picture this — a tall and slender green plant with elegant magenta flowers. It is plentiful this year, observed on roadsides for the last couple of weeks and usually through early September is purple ...

Purple loosestrife's striking flower plumes are pretty as a picture -- on America's ``most wanted'' poster for invasive plants. Now the wetlands killer has a price on its head. The U.S. Fish and ...

Privet is almost indestructible, according to Dillon, and forms dense thickets, making it impossible for native plants to ...

Six years ago, a summertime glimpse of the Halfway Creek wetlands on Brice Prairie revealed a vista of stunning violet. The cause was purple loosestrife, a plant native to Eurasia that spread with ...

Wet and warm weather has purple loosestrife flourishing this summer - bad news for native wetland plants that get choked out by the taller, fast-growing European invader. Purple loosestrife has been a ...

If you're not especially green-thumbed, chances are you don't give a second thought to what plants might be lurking at the bottom of your backyard. If you have invasive species hiding there, though, ...