PORT TOWNSEND — If scotch broom, the invasive weed, is not curtailed, it will spread into the equivalent of an agricultural apocalypse, according to a Kala Point man who has started an online petition ...

PORT ANGELES — Photographs of the beautiful but deadly scotch broom have won prizes in the Clallam County Noxious Weed Control Board’s first photography contest. The “Show Us Your Weeds Photo Contest” ...

A new effort to control the nonnative and invasive Scotch broom infestation in the dunes of coastal Washington and on the Ocean Shores peninsula was demonstrated last month to the city and local ...

Scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius) is a perennial shrub native to northern Africa and parts of Europe. It was introduced into the U.S. in the 1850s as an ornamental, later it was used for erosion ...

From our friends at OSU Extension comes this timely and informative missive about Scotch broom -- that pretty but obnoxiously persistent shrub. Check it out. Although admired for its yellow blooms, ...

Scotch broom was intended to be an easy-growing garden accessory by the Europeans who brought it here in the 19th century. Instead, the plant has created thick patches of flammable brush. For more ...

The rows of bright yellow scotch broom near Kelso airport may be thriving now, but Cowlitz County unleashed a tiny, yet effective, secret weapon Thursday morning: 200 Bruchidius villosus beetles. Each ...

Conservation organisation, Aussie Ark, is celebrating the complete eradication of the exotic Scotch Broom across its site, including the 400-hectare Barrington Tops Wildlife Sanctuary.

MEDFORD -- In a case of invader versus invader, a European insect spreading south in Oregon has given botanists and others hope of turning the tide against Scotch broom, a European shrub that turned ...

In the late nineteenth century, a little town in New Hampshire high in the White Mountains, suddenly became home to dozens of grand hotels, packed with tourists all drawn there by the one thing the ...

Scotch broom, Cytisus scoparius (L.), a weed in the Pacific Northwest, is rapidly invading open areas and ecologically sensitive dunes along the coast. Scotch broom populations also exist in the ...

Scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius) is a perennial shrub native to northern Africa and parts of Europe. It was introduced into the U.S. in the 1850’s as an ornamental, later it was used for erosion ...