When the forest canopy gaps and shrinks, an aggressive, sun-loving invasive plant called reed canary grass takes hold, a species that thrives in areas disturbed by fluctuating water. If the flooding ...

As the temperature neared 90 on a day in early June, Sara Rother revved up a weed-whacker and began to cut down the waist-high grass that blanketed the small island she stood on in the Mississippi ...

After a long and difficult battle against reed canary grass, an invasive plant species living along the Iowa River Corridor for decades, the Johnson County Department of Natural Resources says it has ...

CANARY grass is only a problem in isolated areas so far but the rate of spread and the damage it can inflict to crops is worrying. There are two species: lesser and awned canary grass. Both are ...

HOUSTON COUNTY, Minn. – Andy Beebe and his crew move deliberately through the slough, their boots squelching in wet black silt left by the latest flood. They push metal planters into the mud, pull ...

Disturbances that intensify with agriculture and/or urban development are thought to promote the spread of invasive plants, such as the clonal perennial reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea L). To ...

Reed canary grass growing on a marshy island in South Bay. It’s a “troublesome” species, says the New Brunswick Invasive Species Council, because it spreads by underground stems called rhizomes, ...