LANCASTER, N.Y. — The Village of Lancaster is warning the community about an invasive plant that's spreading across Western New York. According to Erie County Parks, the plant Giant Hogweed has been ...

PIERPONT, Ohio — Farmer Settilio Codispoti hoped to fatten up his three little goats. He figured the towering, white-flowered weeds that encircled his barn would make great feed. “The goats got funny, ...

If you see a huge weed while gardening, you’re probably going to try to take it out — that’s just gardening 101. But a teenager in Virginia did just that and ended up with second- and third-degree ...

"Big chunks of my face were falling off," Alex Childress, 17, tells PEOPLE of the night he realized he had been burned by hogweed sap A 17-year-old Virginia boy is recovering after a giant hogweed ...

RICHMOND, VA -- A month after officials in Virginia warned about the dangers of an invasive plant commonly known as giant hogweed, a teen has sustained burns that will leave him sensitive to the light ...

Compared to the travails of Upstate New York winters, the perils of the region’s summers are infinitely more tolerable: humidity, mosquitoes, hamburgers that turn into hockey pucks on the grill. But ...

Whether you’re hiking, gardening or just enjoying the outdoors, dangerous plants — such as giant hogweed and wild parsnip, among others — can be found in many different parts of the U.S. Here’s what ...

Milwaukee County parks officials are fielding calls about a dangerous weed they believe has surfaced in county parks. The sap of the giant hogweed is so toxic that just touching it can lead to severe ...

PORT ANGELES — Giant hogweed. Its name alone ought to tip you off. It sounds bad enough in English, but its scientific name, Heraculeum mantegazztanum — Hercules’ shield — suggests that this is no ...

Poisonous plants and carnivorous mammals are taking over protected nature spots as conservationists warn they are not being given enough funding to keep them at bay. New mapping of Sites of Scientific ...