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Missourians Making a Difference: Interview with Stephen Bybee
Missourians Making a Difference: Interview with Stephen Bybee Throughout Missouri, many individuals are making significant progress in the early detection and control of invasive plants. MoIP is pleased to highlight their efforts. Missouri Conservation Corps...
Invasive Plant Success Story: Replacing Tall Fescue with Native Wildflowers on a Tree Farm
Jim & Schatzi Ball at the Ball Tree Farm. Photo by David Stoner / MDC. With the ongoing challenge of controlling invasive plants in native habitats, along roadsides, on working lands, yards, around businesses, schools, and in parks, we can all use some good news!...
Support Missouri Senate Bill 105 to Stop the Sale of Select Invasive Plants in Missouri
Missouri Senate Bill 105, sponsored by Senator Bernskoetter, aims to halt the sale of five invasive plants in Missouri. The bill requires that all nurseries and nursery dealers in Missouri submit to the Missouri Department of Agriculture an affidavit that they will...
Invasive to Watch This Season
Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica) is a woody, perennial, evergreen to semi-evergreen vine that trails along the ground and can climb to more than 80 ft. in length. Leaves are opposite, oval, and 1 to 2.5 in. long. Flowering occurs from April to July, when showy, fragrant, tubular, whitish-pink flowers develop in the axils of the leaves. The flowers turn cream-yellow as they age. The small, shiny globular fruits turn from green to black as they ripen. Each fruit contains 2 to 3 small brown to black seeds.