No one wants invasive plant species in their garden, but trying to identify every plant in your space (and nearby!) is difficult without the help of these apps.

Q: Can you identify this shrub? It has reddish fernlike leaves in the spring followed by white flowers that fade to brown. Unfortunately, it sure spreads. — Audrey Johnson. A: The shrub is called Ural ...

Two invasive trees and seven invasive shrubs in Michigan. Images and credits can be found here: https://www.michigan.gov/invasives/id-report/plants. Plant ...

Join Lenny Farlee, Purdue FNR Extension Forester, as he explains why the typical thinking of what is a tree and what is a shrub isn’t always simple as far as looking for the “single” trunk to call it ...

While studying plant identification in college, the hardest to learn were the "miscellaneous green shrubs." For example, Xylosma is identical to Ficus to the untrained eye as both have the same sized ...

Q: What type of shrub is in the photo? We’d like to trim it. Any suggestions? — Ken and Jenny Rustad. A: The red-flowered shrub is weigela, probably the popular cultivar Red Prince. There are various ...

"The plant world is enormous, and some corners of it have not yet been discovered, but a great many plants have been identified by botanists, taxonomists or particularly knowledgeable plant collectors ...

A group of Colorado State University faculty and Extension specialists have created a free shrub and tree identification mobile app called CO Woody Plants. With the launch of the app, Colorado’s ...

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Some shrubs are planted mainly for their bright winter bark: vivid streaks of red or yellow that defy gray weather and seem to spark against a background of snow. To keep that bright color, these ...

A group of Colorado State University faculty and Extension specialists have created a free shrub and tree identification mobile app, CO Woody Plants. With the launch of the app, Colorado’s wide-range ...