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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What are the patches of pinkish-purple flowers I see in weedy lawns and flower beds? Given the season and their preference for disturbed environments, the two likely candidates are purple deadnettle ...

Flowers belong in beds, or planters or pots. They don’t belong in turf grass stands. Unfortunately, many of our early season broadleaf weeds like to ‘show off’ this time of year, growing rapidly and ...

While driving throughout Aiken County lately, chances are you've noticed bright purple fields of what appear to be wildflowers creating a carpet of beauty unlike any other you may have seen before.