What constitutes a weed is a matter of context and perspective. The same plants that are undesirable for your garden plot may be invaluable to a nearby field. There they grow heartily despite poor ...

You may know Bishop’s Weed, Aegopodium podagraria, a member of the carrot family, as goutweed, ground elder and snow-on-the-mountain. Native to Europe and northern Asia, it was brought to North ...