Imagine a lovely evergreen ornamental plant that flourishes with little watering even in the driest and poorest soils, spreads with no care and repels deer. Perfect for gardens in Utah and other arid ...

As gardens start to bloom again with the arrival of spring, officials are asking for the public’s help in not continuing to introduce a monster. Myrtle spurge has been turning up in abundance, ...

This profile of spurge laurel is another in a series on invasive plants from the City Green blog by the Portland Bureau of Environmental Services. Spurge laurel is neither a spurge nor a laurel, and ...

Destroy this invasive weed before the problem gets worse. I had no interest in gardening when I came to Salt Lake City. My husband and I lived for years in a condo on Wasatch Drive. Behind us was ...

Leafy spurge has a very extensive root system, most of which is in the top foot of soil, but the vertical roots may grow to depths of 15 feet or more. This root system contains substantial nutrient ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Christina Hesley’s daughter once had a bad reaction to myrtle spurge. “My daughter was playing with a friend in a neighbor's yard and she just broke out in a hive-type rash pretty ...

When Mike and Clarissa Tofel saw their twin daughters playing in some pretty yellow flowers in their yard, they thought nothing of it. They'd moved into the house the previous November, and in the ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. -- South Dakota State University Extension and the South Dakota Department of Agriculture encourage landowners to collect and redistribute leafy spurge beetles in their pastures. "With ...

In many cases, I’ve discovered the Asian counterpart of our native plants to be much showier, more robust and in many instances more floriferous than our native species. Take Claytonia, for example.

It’s time to purge your spurge. Delicate yellow flowers atop tall spindly greenery have made myrtle spurge and cypress spurge popular for rock gardens and xeriscaped yards. But these ornamental plants ...

The ideas for many of my articles are often triggered by something I notice on my daily dog walks. When walking by the river in Chief Whitecap dog park at the end of June, I noticed a very large ...

DES MOINES — For years, cattle farmers in northwest Iowa have struggled with a scourge that eats away at their grazeable land. The problem is an invasive weed called leafy spurge. The nonnative plant, ...