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The 2022 King County Noxious Weed List is official!

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Old man’s beard – January 2022 Weed of the Month

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The story of English holly in Washington

Tree-of-heaven, Ailanthus altissima, growing along a roadside. Photo by Andreas Rockstein CC2.0.
October 12, 2021 kcweeds

Statewide call for tree-of-heaven locations in effort to prevent spotted lanternfly spread

SE Seattle Tool Library volunteers are ready for some weed control action!
July 13, 2021July 28, 2021 kcweeds

Tackle your Scotch broom and other weeds with weed control tools from your local tool libraries

Young person holding a stem of Egeria densa in their hand
July 1, 2021January 12, 2022 kcweeds

Lake Rasmussen’s new aquatic noxious weed gets speedy action – July 21 community open house to discuss control plans

Egeria stem being held by someone with a person in a canoe in the background
June 21, 2021 kcweeds

Uh oh, that’s not milfoil – Green Lake has a new aquatic weed to deal with

April 22, 2021April 19, 2021 martaolsonwlrd

My Favorite Weeds (and some not-so-favorites) PART 2

April 16, 2021 martaolsonwlrd

My Favorite Weeds (and some not-so-favorites) PART 1

Tree-of-heaven (Ailanthus altissima)
April 11, 2021April 12, 2021 kcweeds

Washington prohibits sale and distribution of twelve new plant species

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Do you feel confident identifying sedges? Personally I find they can be difficult to ID. There’s a popular phrase us weedy folk use that goes “Sedges have edges, rushes are round, and grasses have nodes from the top to the ground.”
Nothing better than a fall field day on the canoe! Pictured here, Noxious Weed Specialist Mario collects aquatic plant samples on Lake Dolloff for a plant ID training. #plantsarecool
It’s #weedspecialistwednesday! Today you all get to meet Sara, (me!) who will be taking over this instagram for the next few months while our education specialists is away.
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