Resources / Background

Current Harvest Efforts

Above: flower bracts on Japanese Knotweed. Click for close-up.

Below: Japanese Knotweed along Minuteman path lines both banks of outfall channel from MBTA stormdrain to Alewife Brook.

Learn about Japanese Knotweed at the links below.

• NPCI Alien Plant Working Group
• Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service, Noxious Weed Home
• Noxious Weeds, Exotic and Invasive Plant Resource
• Rutgers Cooperative Extension
• Element Stewardship by Nature Conservancy 
• JK Control Forum for Cornwall
• Washington State's research review
• Jennifer Forman's page on history of JK in Massachusetts

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