- Invasive Weeds: Creeping Buttercup - Daves Garden
A field of white daisies and yellow buttercups is a lovely sight to behold But if creeping buttercup finds its way into your gardens, you've got trouble with a capital
- Identifying wildflowers: Packera glabella, Butterweed
Sometimes even native plants become troublesome Invasive isn't always alien It is butterweed season and the fallow fields and roadside ditches are a mass of yellow Packera glabella is a native plant for most of North America east of the Rockies and for the next few weeks these yellow flowers will be everywhere
- The Knotty Problem of Invasive Japanese Knotweed
This weed can keep too much of your landscape "tied up!" Back in the 19 th century physician and plant explorer Phillip Franz von Siebold introduced Japanese knotweed into Europe As often as the species name sieboldii appears in plant names, we can deduce that many of his finds were successful ones Knotweed's Nature With its red-speckled bamboo-like stems and large showy leaves, knotweed
- Mock Strawberries - Daves Garden
Mock strawberry plants are decidedly invasive in nature Scientifically, the plant is known as Duchesnea indica, but it's also sometimes referred to as Potentilla indica This genus is different from that of real strawberries, Fragaria, though they are both members of the rose family, along with apples, pears, almonds and spiraeas, just to name a few As you can see, they look just like
- Fig Buttercup - Invasive, Yet Useful - Daves Garden
An Invasive Welcome at the Dinner Table In Romania, fig buttercup isn't considered invasive thanks to its culinary use in salads and soups and also of its medicinal use
- The Invaders: Lamiastrum Yellow Archangel - Daves Garden
Most of the invasive plants I have dealt with were already growing here when I moved onto my current property In the case of Yellow Archangel, though, I was the one who brought this plant into my
- The Invaders: Rudbeckia - Daves Garden
Because the Rudbeckias are native plants of North America, some people will say I can not properly call them "invasive" here Fine, but they certainly do spread! While they seed themselves, they spread more readily by runners that sneak along just below the surface of the earth, popping up new plants every couple of inches These new plants are insidiously tiny above ground, hard to spot and
- The Invaders: Virginia Creeper - Daves Garden
Virginia creeper is a plant that generates profoundly different opinions among gardeners Some call it desirable Some call it invasive, while others mistakenly call it poison ivy
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