Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Purple henbit and purple deadnettle blanket a field in Henderson County, Ky., Wednesday morning, April 7, 2021. The colorful ...

Every February in Oklahoma, before most gardeners even think about planting tomatoes, a soft carpet of purple blooms quietly takes over lawns, garden beds, and fence lines. Most people call it a weed.

Weeds. The bane of gardeners. Drive around Lubbock and any abandoned spot seems to have carpets of orchid-colored blooms. The blooms are the flowering stage of Lamium amplexicaule (LAM-ee-um am-plex-i ...

For the past dozen years, our Wednesday birding group has remarked that three species of wildflowers, some call them weeds, are taking over the countryside. They are henbit in the spring, then Queen ...

Two specific weeds seem to become nemeses to gardeners first in the growing season: dandelion and henbit. Both, in quantity, produce lush purple or yellow casts to open fields and, at the same, a ...

Over the years of writing this column, I continually strive to write about the considerable diversity of wildlife that can be observed here in this great state of ours. But over the last year or so, I ...

Henbit (top) and purple deadnettle (bottom) are nontoxic weeds. Henbit and purple deadnettle are winter annual species of the same genus, and people frequently confused the two. Both species are often ...

Back in February, my wife and I made the trek out to Tomball to celebrate the one year anniversary of Bootsie’s Heritage Café. The dishes spanned a wide range of tastes, flavors and textures. From the ...

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Spring has sprung, and one telltale sign is the fields of purple flowers in the area. These plants appear in corn and soybean fields, where they are visible to passersby. Learn more ...