autumn olive shrubs and fig buttercup flowers that line freeways, coat forest floors and choke wild spaces across Ohio. State officials who already inspect nurseries and garden centers will keep ...

General features of the flower indicated the plant was a buttercup, and that detail immediately narrowed the pool of candidates to just one percent of the state’s 3,000 flowering plant species.

The flower is buttercup, and it has become a serious weed problem for farmers. In fact, buttercup has become such a problem around the country that it has been classified as a noxious weed in some ...