– 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 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. To the folks who requested spraying spotted knapweed on the Kagy hillsides last July and to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 potentially invasive weed has been showing up in the southwest region of Missouri, and University of Missouri is reminding folks to be on the lookout. David L. Burton, with University of Missouri ...

I know just what's coming whenever I hear that slow crunch of tires coming to a halt on the gravel road beside me. I'll straighten up out of the weed patch, turn my head, and the driver of the car ...

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 ...

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