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It has attractive lavender-purple flowers. It can spread out of control, however, making it a potential weed. While the species plant is invasive, several cultivars exist (in several flower colors ...

Q: I have lots of this weird weed popping up in my rock beds out front and wonder what they’ll grow up to be. The leaves are ...

Mulching flower beds, planting perennials ... but it often requires intervention from weed killers to get the job done. In an ...

The beautiful, yet destructive, pink PomPom weed is invading the Melville Koppies grasslands, threatening local ecosystems and livestock farmers.

Stems often have a reddish tinge, which is why some farmers incorrectly call this weed "redshank." Flowers are pinkish in colour and quite small, but are clustered tightly together in compact ...