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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:navy'>Take a look at the April issue of the Bay
Journal, page 1. Cheers Marc </span></font><font size=4><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<h2><b><font size=5 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt'><a
href="http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=3302"
title="blocked::http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=3302">Chesapeake
Bay Journal: Wave bye-bye to wavyleaf basketgrass ...</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h2>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color="#333333"
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#333333;
font-weight:bold'>Wave bye-bye to wavyleaf basketgrass<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=2 color="#5e5e5d"
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#5E5E5D;
font-weight:bold'>Early detection-and rapid response-provides hope for
eradicating Asian plant in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Maryland</st1:State></st1:place>-a
rare victory over an invasive species<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Imlay</span></font></b> called on volunteers
through last summer to help fight back against <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Bay Journal is
published by the <a href="http://www.alliancechesbay.org"
title="blocked::http://www.alliancechesbay.org/">Alliance for the Chesapeake
Bay</a> for the <a href="http://www.chesapeakebay.net"
title="blocked::http://www.chesapeakebay.net/">Chesapeake Bay Program</a>.</span></font><font
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>By Karl Blankenship <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>Three summers ago, when Marc Imlay and a
small band of volunteers were yanking unwanted plants in a local park, they stumbled
across something they had never seen before: a deep green grass with rippling
waves across its blades.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>In later visits to Little Paint Branch
Park in <st1:State w:st="on">Maryland</st1:State>'s <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Prince George</st1:City></st1:place>'s County, they noticed the
grass was quickly blanketing the area. "We knew there was something
wrong," said Imlay, conservation biologist with the Anacostia Watershed
Society, who gathered samples for botanists to identify. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>In late 2006, he got his answer: It was
wavyleaf basketgrass, a species native to southeast Asia.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>It was first seen in the United States
only a decade before-an amateur botanist, Ed Uebel, spotted a few small patches
in 1996 in Patapsco Valley State Park, about 20 miles from where Imlay had
found it. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>Imlay's worries that the plant was not
only exotic, but highly invasive, were confirmed last summer when Kerrie Kyde,
the invasive plant specialist with the Maryland Department of Natural
Resources, revisited Patapsco.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>The small patches observed by Uebel now
blanketed more than 150 acres. "It is kind of mind-boggling," Kyde
said. "It looks like somebody rolled out the Astroturf."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>Based on its rapid spread, botanists
fear that it could rapidly replace native plants, turning forest floors into
monocultures with little habitat value for other species throughout the region.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>But instead of wavyleaf basketgrass
being the latest invasive species to roll across the landscape-as has been the
case with everything from kudzu and mile-a-minute to gypsy moths and
snakeheads-Imlay and Kyde think they have a shot at driving the plant from its
beachhead in <st1:place w:st="on">North America</st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>"So far, it is only found in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Maryland</st1:State></st1:place>," Imlay
said. "We have a realistic chance of saving what will otherwise destroy 10
percent of the herbaceous layer of one fourth of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region></st1:place>." <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>If that happens, it would be a
remarkable accomplishment. Although efforts have succeeded in removing
problematic species from local areas, such as parks, examples of removing an
invasive species from the continent are rare.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>"I'd be hard-pressed to pick one
out and point at it," said Alan Tasker, the federal noxious weed
coordinator at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Heath
Inspection Service, which is charged with keeping harmful pests out of the
country. "This would be one of the few citable examples."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>Right now, the plant has only been
spotted in a handful of locations, which also include the Liberty Reservoir and
Hernwood Landfill in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Baltimore</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>And in one location, wavyleaf
basketgrass has nearly been eradicated. Imlay called on volunteers through last
summer to help fight back against the plant in Little Paint Branch Park,
including at one point assembling an international crew from the World Bank.
"I wanted to teach people so they would realize that when something first
hits on their own continent, that is the time to get it," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>Altogether, Imlay led more than a dozen
trips to the park in 2007, with scores of volunteers racking up more than 400
hours spraying and pulling wavyleaf basketgrass, which had spread over roughly
three acres. By year's end, they had knocked it back by about 80 percent.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>Imlay is seeking volunteers to finish
off the plant in the park this spring, and more volunteers are queuing up for
the fight. He said the Maryland Chapter of the Sierra Club is pledging 325
volunteer hours toward eradicating the plant.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>Meanwhile, members of the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Montgomery</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> "Weed Warriors" are
being trained to identify the plant. "This year," he said, "the
idea is to scout farther in all directions and remove it where we see it."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>Nonetheless, ridding the plant will be
no easy task, especially in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Patapsco</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Valley</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">State
Park</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> where it already blankets more than a
quarter-square-mile of territory.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>Kyde said the plant is too widespread to
be eradicated in a single year. So, while volunteers will be working to control
the plant, other efforts will go into precisely mapping known locations,
understanding the plant's biology and determining the most effective herbicides
to use against it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>"I suspect this is easily a
three-year effort and maybe five," Kyde said. "And I would want to
monitor for five or 10 years thereafter."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>The maps will help botanists
identify-and get rid of-any pockets that spread beyond the boundaries of
current patches, thereby containing the invasion.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>The plant has two ways to spread. Its
stems can grow horizontally along the ground and root at the lower stem nodes.
And, when it blooms from mid-September through November, it grows seed-bearing
spikelets. The spikelets have long pointed bristle-like awns that produce a
sticky substance that readily attaches the seeds to anything which may brush
past. "It's about the stickiest thing I've ever come across," Imlay
said. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>To limit the spread, removal priority is
likely to be given to areas along paths, Kyde said. But people may not be the only
way to move seeds around. "I believe the deer are a major vector,"
she added, noting that people have reported seeing deer legs covered with awns
and seeds. "That's bad news."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>The plant is native to <st1:country-region
w:st="on">India</st1:country-region> and <st1:place w:st="on">Southeast Asia</st1:place>.
It is also found in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region>,
although it's not clear whether it is native to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region></st1:place> or was imported, Kyde said.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>It's not clear how the plant got to <st1:State
w:st="on">Maryland</st1:State>, but because one of its known locations was near
a landfill, Kyde said it's possible the plant was being disposed of, although this
particular subspecies is not typically sold in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>Tasker said the USDA is reviewing
whether the subspecies should be listed as a noxious weed, which would prevent
its importation into the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">United
States</st1:country-region></st1:place> and transport across state lines.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>While the wavyleaf basketgrass has been
in Maryland for nearly a decade, it's still considered an early discovery
relative to other species, which are often more widespread before they are
noticed. "You often don't find out about it until it is too late to be
able to take it out," Tasker said.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>He said one of the lessons from the
wavyleaf basketgrass experience is the value of citizen efforts, like those by
Imlay, who work to control other invasive species in their local area.
"Most people don't know their surroundings like they used to," he
said. "They don't know what belongs or doesn't belong in an area. They
just think, 'Oh it's green, so it's good.'"<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>As Kyde and Imlay work to assemble
volunteers, funding-and a plan-to control the plant, it could serve as a model
for others of how early detection of an invasive plant, followed by a
coordinated rapid response effort, can remove a species before it becomes
problematic. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>Although such efforts are generally
considered critical to controlling invasive species, discoveries are often too
late, or funding is lacking to fight the invaders-the USDA has only about $1.5
million nationwide to support such efforts.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>"We are going to learn an awful lot
through this infestation," Kyde said. "This is going to be extremely
valuable in formulating how people might handle the same kind of incident with
other species."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>It would also show that such efforts are
worth the investment, Tasker said. "One of the difficulties is coming up
with success stories that we can point to," he said. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>For information about the wavyleaf
basketgrass, including information about identification and reporting
sightings, visit <a
href="http://www.dnr.state.md.us/wildlife/wl_basketgrass.asp">www.dnr.state.md.us/wildlife/wl_basketgrass.asp</a>.
Anyone interested in participating in eradication efforts can contact Marc
Imlay at <st1:PersonName w:st="on">marc@anacostiaws.org</st1:PersonName> or
Kerrie Kyde at 410-260-8534, 1-877-620-8DNR x8367 (TTY users dial 711) or <a
href="mailto:KKyde@dnr.state.md.us">KKyde@dnr.state.md.us</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>Wavyleaf Basketgrass<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>Wavyleaf basketgrass is a low-lying,
trailing perennial grass. Its flat leaf blades are about 0.5- to 1-inch wide
and 1.5 to 4 inches long and have elongated pointed tips. There are rippling
waves across the deep green grass blades, as though the tide were coming into
shore along the leaves. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>The leaf sheaths and stems are
noticeably hairy, although the hairs are very short.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>When the plant blooms, from
mid-September through November, the grass spikelets have glumes (lower bracts)
with very long awns (extended pointed tips). The awns produce a sticky
substance that allows the grass seed to adhere to and be dispersed by passing
animals or the pants of humans. It also spreads by branching and rooting at
nodes along creeping stems called stolons.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=4 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>- From <a
href="http://www.dnr.state.md.us/wildlife/wl_basketgrass.asp">www.dnr.state.md.us/wildlife/wl_basketgrass.asp</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CAC7BE'><font size=4 color="#333333"
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333'>Karl is the
Editor of the Bay Journal.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:14.0pt;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=1 color="#333333"
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#333333'><a
href="http://www.bayjournal.com/index.cfm">Home</a> | <a
href="http://www.bayjournal.com/index.cfm?issue=296">April 2008</a> | Wave
bye-bye to wavyleaf basketgrass<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=4 color="#333333"
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#333333;
font-weight:bold'>Wave bye-bye to wavyleaf basketgrass<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=2 color="#5e5e5d"
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#5E5E5D;
font-weight:bold'>Early detection-and rapid response-provides hope for
eradicating Asian plant in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Maryland</st1:State></st1:place>-a
rare victory over an invasive species<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#333333'><a
href="http://www.bayjournal.com/image.cfm?row=1&article=3302"><font
color="#3b4898"><span style='color:#3B4898;text-decoration:none'><img border=0
width=165 height=123 id="_x0000_i1032" src="cid:image001.jpg@01C8A5D6.7CDDE380"
vspace=3 alt="Wavyleaf basketgrass " class=articleimages></span></font></a><a
href="http://www.bayjournal.com/image.cfm?row=2&article=3302"><font
color="#3b4898"><span style='color:#3B4898;text-decoration:none'><img border=0
width=165 height=121 id="_x0000_i1033" src="cid:image002.jpg@01C8A5D6.7CDDE380"
vspace=3
alt="When the plant blooms, from mid-September through November, the grass spikelets have lower bracts with very long awns (extended pointed tips)."
class=articleimages></span></font></a><a
href="http://www.bayjournal.com/image.cfm?row=3&article=3302"><font
color="#3b4898"><span style='color:#3B4898;text-decoration:none'><img border=0
width=165 height=218 id="_x0000_i1034" src="cid:image003.jpg@01C8A5D6.7CDDE380"
vspace=3
alt="The plant's awns and seeds are sticky and easily adhere to pant legs. "
class=articleimages></span></font></a><a
href="http://www.bayjournal.com/image.cfm?row=4&article=3302"><font
color="#3b4898"><span style='color:#3B4898;text-decoration:none'><img border=0
width=165 height=122 id="_x0000_i1035" src="cid:image004.jpg@01C8A5D6.7CDDE380"
vspace=3
alt="The stem, right, of the wavyleaf basketgrass has short but noticeably hairy stems."
class=articleimages></span></font></a><a
href="http://www.bayjournal.com/image.cfm?row=5&article=3302"><font
color="#3b4898"><span style='color:#3B4898;text-decoration:none'><img border=0
width=165 height=157 id="_x0000_i1036" src="cid:image005.jpg@01C8A5D6.7CDDE380"
vspace=3 alt="The plant is shade tolerant and evenly carpets a woodland floor."
class=articleimages></span></font></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=1 color="#71716f"
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#71716F;
font-weight:bold'>By Karl Blankenship <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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