Invasive:  Mole Plant (Euphorbia lathyrus) Characteristics:  Mole plant—a.k.a. gopher spurge or caper spurge—is an erect biennial (occasionally annual) herb, native to the Mediterranean region and eastward to western China.  It […]

Invasive:  Scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius) Characteristics:  Scotch broom is a perennial member of the pea family (Fabaceae).  It is a deciduous shrub, 1-3 m (3 to 10 ft) tall, though

Weed of the Month:  Herb-Robert (Geranium robertianum) Characteristics: Herb-Robert—also called Robert’s geranium, or, colloquially, “stinky Bob”—is both a winter and spring annual with light-green, deeply dissected leaves. In late fall

Weed of the Month:  Clematis (Clematis vitalba) Characteristics Clematis —also called traveler’s joy or old man’s beard—is a deciduous climbing vine, with stringy bark that easily rubs off on older

Weed of the Month:  Spurge Laurel (Daphne laureola) Characteristics Spurge laurel is a slow-growing, shade-tolerant, long-lived evergreen shrub from Europe and the Mediterranean region.  It can grow in a wide