Canada thistle may look beautiful and innocent with its bright yellow and purple flowers towering above North Dakota's crops and prairie grasses, but looks may be deceiving. The plant is an invasive ...

Spurge weed (Euphorbia) is a native annual indigenous to the eastern U.S., but found in many parts of the country. And although we often associate growing native plants with being the more ...

BISMARCK – Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring has named Terry Weis as the recipient of the 2026 Weed Control Partner ...

March’s Weed of the Month, leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula) is an invader of pastures, forage, grasslands, and ditches. It is native to Eurasia and has become widespread throughout the United States.

Noticing a weed I have probably seen often but never identified, I took a picture and examined it. Although there are at least five genus of spurge, I recognized the prostrate spurge (Euphorbia ...

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. -- July is the height of the growing season for many grains, fruits and vegetables in northwest Minnesota. Unfortunately, it is also prime time for the spread of a particularly ...

The department has offered biological control agents to address the weed. Biological control agents range from fungi and bacteria to insects and mites. These agents are not always effective and take ...

In its annual report presented Monday, Jan. 5, the Bonner County Noxious Weed Department outlined the status of several ...

There's a reason spurge rhymes with scourge. As in, the scourge of your existence. Myrtle spurge is one of three noxious weeds at the top of the "most wanted" list in Mesa County, and if Teresa Nees ...