UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia)

Working in concert with the California Nursery industry and PlantRight, the UCCE Master Gardeners participated in an on the ground nursery survey to track the retail market for garden related invasive plants in California.

A neighbor asked me to identify a robust perennial that keeps coming up in his garden. It had long, tropical-looking leaves and floppy racemes with small white flowers. This was a new one for me. Turned out it was common pokeweed (Phytolacca americana), a native of eastern North America.

PULLMAN, Wash. -- Ann Kennedy leaned forward over her desk, the better to share her exitement. "We're talking about a bacterium that could change the fabric of the lands of the West," she said. "It could change how the West looks.

We recently updated the Herbicide Registration chart for California tree and vine crops.

I'm often asked the question: "Who is to blame for the development and spread of herbicide resistance in weeds?" Seeing as I am neither a lawyer nor a politician, I am not in the habit of pointing fingers and laying blame.