Purple bergenia is a low-maintenance, versatile plant that provides additional perks aside from weed control. Read more: 19 Deer-Resistant Shrubs To Landscape Your Yard & Protect Your Garden ...

Managing spring flowers and weeds. By K-State Research and Extension news service. April 21, 2025. ... Henbit weed is in bloom, creating waves of purple through the landscape.

Purple deadnettle pops up quickly in spring then goes away just as fast in late spring. ... Purple-leafed flower-looking weeds provide early spring food for honeybees. Bob Dluzen.

Purple deadnettle (Lamium purpureum) is noticeable around March or April and has small pink flowers above dark red upper leaves. The heart-shaped, scalloped leaves change to green further down the ...

Spring has officially sprung. Tulips and daffodils are starting their flower show. Henbit and dandelions are looking gorgeous. What? Are the last two not quite the kinds of spring flowers ...

ST. LOUIS – Local residents may have noticed fields full of purple “flowers” pop up recently. What look like pretty flowers are actually weeds, which are thriving thanks to the warm weather.

Some see henbit and dandelions as weeds, but they are actually one of the first foods available to our pollinating insects in the spring. Don't kill weeds: Dandelions, henbit help feed pollinators ...

In areas that faced wildfire this spring, fields of purple flowers bloomed amidst the scorched trees. As the name suggests, fireweed is one of the first species to show itself following a wildfire.