ATTACK OF THE KILLER WEEDS ; Invaders Turn Garden State into Botanical Battleground
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By JIM WRIGHT, STAFF WRITER  Foreign weeds are invading North Jersey's open spaces, wetlands, maybe even your back yard  and they're strangling trees and smothering wildflowers.  Garlic mustard, Japanese knotweed and other non-native weeds have been a growing problem for decades.
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A fungus capable of damaging soybean crops has arrived in the United States for the first time, causing concern among northeast Indianaâs agriculture industry that the fungus could spread here as soon as next summer.
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Two unlikely foes have launched a mock feud to be waged in a sea of green.
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LOS ANGELES  - Showtime is high on  "Weeds."
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The fires set at a development on a wetland in Maryland have highlighted a long and contentious battle over whether the injection of suburban density belonged there.
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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. _ I was happy to see the label "poisonous" on the plant Brugmansia when I visited a garden center in the other day. I applaud them for letting the public know _ especially shoppers who have curious small children or pets.
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By Jennifer Chamberlain, The Dallas Morning News  Sep. 23--This summer's drought may have planted the seeds for a coming landscaping boom as homeowners look to revive wilted lawns and forlorn flowerbeds.
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An exotic marsh grass is spreading throughout San Francisco Bay more rapidly than anticipated, threatening native plants and birds and prompting an urgent search for ways to eradicate it.
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By Allyson Bond, High Point Enterprise, N.C.  Jun. 17--RANDOLPH COUNTY -- A rare species of flower will remain in its natural habitat in RandolphCounty.
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State wildlife officials are declaring success in their chemical campaign against an invasive weed that had threatened to overwhelm a northern Indiana lake.
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By John F. Bonfatti  As the barge slowly toured the southeast section of Chautauqua Lake,  John Skogerboe periodically flung a rake attached to a line into the water  and dragged up a clump of wispy weeds.
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Many homes and gardens play host to an increasing number of hazardous plants, and children are most often at risk.
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ROCHESTER, Ind. - Environmental officials believe progress is being made against an invasive weed found in a northern Indiana, though more chemicals will likely need to be applied.
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This week, Sen. Orrin Hatch, with Rep. Mark Souder of Indiana and Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, are pushing a bill authorizing mycoherbicides as part of the Office of National Drug Control Policy reauthorization bill. This mycoherbicides bill will cause a health and environmental disaster.
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Bamboo-like plants that grow taller than adults have choked out native plants in a marsh that once teemed with life at Maumee Bay State Park along Lake Erie.
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By Debbie Gebolys, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Jun. 17--In the rolling landscape north of Scioto Downs, a colony of agricultural researchers and greenhouse entrepreneurs toils a short walk from their ecologically sensitive homes.
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Farmers are part of a national movement to legalize growing a plant that is closely associated with marijuana.