Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense) may sound friendly and indeed it has a lovely purple flower, but gardeners and landowners know better. This prickly perennial weed is a menace and is listed as a ...

Hummingbirds aren’t the only birds that can benefit from planting flowers in your yard. Planting native seed-producing flowers can support ... Read more ...

All three have flowers very similar to dandelions, so you might think they are just dandies with long, long stems. Like ...

When you imagine an old western film, a tumbleweed or two blowing around in the background might come to mind. Many people associate tumbleweeds with an American desert landscape, but these annoying ...

In today’s column, I discuss the humble star thistle, aka Yellow Starthistle, or centaurea solstitialis. I grew up around star thistle. It grew everywhere on the dryland acreage in Corning where ...

Russian thistle is a bushy, annual herb with small flowers and wide reaching branches. While you may have never heard of "Russian thistle," chances are you've heard of what they become: tumbleweeds!