'Wicked Weed of the West' waning with effect of weevils, other nontoxic remedies
Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 10:01
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- It's not often that plants are described as diabolical, but spotted knapweed has that rare distinction. A 2004 issue of Smithsonian magazine, for instance, dubbed it the "wicked weed of the West," a "national menace" and a "weed of mass destruction."