Weeds. The bane of gardeners. Drive around Lubbock and any abandoned spot seems to have carpets of orchid-colored blooms. The blooms are the flowering stage of Lamium amplexicaule (LAM-ee-um am-plex-i ...

The two likely candidates are purple deadnettle (Lamium purpureum) and henbit (Lamium amplexicaule). They’re very common ...

Learn Henbit Tea Benefits, how to harvest henbit safely, and how to make this nourishing spring herbal tea.

Two specific weeds seem to become nemeses to gardeners first in the growing season: dandelion and henbit. Both, in quantity, produce lush purple or yellow casts to open fields and, at the same, a ...

Appealing wildflower or revolting weed? It's all in the eye of the householder. If you choose to wield weapons in the war on weeds, most combat commences in summer. Some weeds, however, come in under ...

For the past dozen years, our Wednesday birding group has remarked that three species of wildflowers, some call them weeds, are taking over the countryside. They are henbit in the spring, then Queen ...

In my garden right now, only one thing is really thriving. Sure, I’ve got nice spinach, kale and collards, and some decent beets (even if the tops look as dejected as the post-playoff Panthers). But ...

If homeowners hoping for a lush green lawn are now starting to see little purple or white flowers in their yard, there’s bad news: there’s not a whole lot you can do about it. K-State Research and ...

Spring. It always smells clean, especially after a slow rain. Each year we are happy to start to see pops of color across the landscape of our counties, but maybe not the little pops of purple we see ...

The bleakness of winter is quickly disappearing and giving rise to the many beautiful colors of spring. Lawns, pastures and roadside ditches are turning green, and everywhere spring flowers are ...

Henbit (top) and purple deadnettle (bottom) are nontoxic weeds. Henbit and purple deadnettle are winter annual species of the same genus, and people frequently confused the two. Both species are often ...