There’s an ongoing battle along New Hampshire’s coastline, and the invader is a 2- to 5-foot-tall perennial herb with white flower clusters. If scientists can eradicate the intruder – stopping its ...

New Hampshire’s strategy to fight off pepperweed since 2008 has been hand-pulling. Soon it may look at targeted herbicide, as well. (Courtesy of UNH Cooperative Extension) Malin Clyde, UNH Extension ...

NEWBURYPORT — A group of “weed warriors” will take a bow Thursday night when they gather at the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge to celebrate efforts over the past 12 years to eradicate the ...

Strategy: A perennial plant native to southern Europe and western Asia, this is a beautiful plants introduced into the country as an ornamental and now has become a noxious weed. It has small, white ...

Although it appears innocent enough at about waist-high with tiny white flowers in summer, the perennial pepperweed is an invasive plant that delivers a quite a punch to the environment. It's a bully ...

NEWBURYPORT — Call it a monster of the marsh. It attacks the estuary and chokes out native plants. It’s also the first to sprout and the last to die. With no pun intended, pepperweed is a growing ...

I have been writing lately on noxious weeds because weed season is going strong and timely action makes all the difference. Weeds, especially noxious ones, seem to be growing and blooming earlier than ...

Visiting the garden today at the Greenhouse Project, I was discussing perennial pepperweed, Lepidium latifolium, management with Cory King, the Project’s manager, farmer and educator. Controlling this ...

Perennial pepperweed (Lepidium latifolium) is a native to southern Europe and western Asia. It was likely introduced into the U.S. as a contaminate in sugar beet seed. It invades meadows, roadsides, ...