JACKSON COUNTY, Miss. (WLOX/Gray News) - An invasive grass species is causing problems and putting native plant life at risk. In Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, North ...

Whether you’ve turned your yard over to native grasses and other groundcover plants completely, or are maintaining a traditional turf lawn, there are certain types of vegetation that you don’t want ...

A homeowner heads to the garden center to buy ornamental grass for the yard. They plant it, thinking it is a good way to green things up—only to find the new variety soon takes over the garden bed and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. State forestry officials are warning people to be on the lookout for “one of the 10 worst weeds in the world” as spring blooms ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For years an invasive species called cogongrass has been choking the life out of native Northwest Florida plants and replacing ...

It doesn’t look like much at first, a dense field of grass with a few willowy white tufts like dandelions sprouting at the top. But cogongrass, an Asian-native plant, is spreading fast across Alabama ...

Cogongrass displaces pasture grass, golf course greens and valuable ecosystems. Now researchers are focusing on the <i>Orseolia javani</i>ca midge that causes cogongrass to produce linear galls at the ...

OCALA - Linda Conway Duever stood in a clump of cogongrass holding a white fluffy seed head in her hand. "It kills everything," Duever said. "It chokes out everything else in the ground cover, and it ...

For years an invasive species called cogongrass has been choking the life out of native Northwest Florida plants and replacing them. Until recently, chemicals have been the primary method of fighting ...