Invasive plants and animals can be the scourge of the farmer, rancher, and home gardener. A new pest has been identified in ...

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 ...

Gardeners love sturdy plants that don’t need babied and that grow quickly without extra care. However, some plants grow a little too well. “Invasive plants spread aggressively and cause environmental ...

Invasive plants are no joke! Many of having invasive plants growing in our yards and in our gardens. But what makes an ...

Researchers emphasized that public awareness remained a major contributing factor, with study author Barbara Barta explaining ...

Bush honeysuckle, pictured above, represents one of the many invasive plants found in Illinois and across the U.S. The Wichita Eagle Although spring annually brings plentiful blooms to Illinois each ...

Plants have long traveled the world with humans, purposefully transported and planted in regions they had never grown before. The early colonists brought plants, fruit trees, grasses and grains to the ...

Welcome to ID That Tree! In this episode, Purdue Extension Forester Lenny Farlee introduces us to multiflora, a non-native invasive shrub that has become widespread across Indiana. Once planted for ...