[APWG] NEWS: More Weeds Than Ever

Olivia Kwong plant at plantconservation.org
Thu Oct 12 14:30:37 CDT 2006


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/11/AR2006101100454.html

More Weeds Than Ever
Exotic Invasives Are Adding to Our Pulling Chores

By Adrian Higgins
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 12, 2006; Page H01

There is a certain urgency these days to Laura Beaty's weeding patrols. 
The hillside garden behind her McLean home has become a perfect habitat 
for the plant world's version of the Asian snakehead fish -- a 
take-no-prisoners ground cover called Japanese stilt grass.

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