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Worst Weeds in Landscape Plantings
Goutweed/Bishop’s Weed -
Aegopodium podagraria `Variegatum’
I’ve practically had to handcuffed my Dad to stop him from transplanting clumps of this wildly invasive groundcover into his
landscape! He, like many others, are defenseless against the variegated form of this plant,
at right.
This plant’s invasive habit is attributable to its wide-spreading rhizomes (creeping underground stems). They often
become so intertwined with the roots of desirable plants in landscape beds that they become impossible to remove. They can
also creep into adjacent lawn areas
where they
then send up new shoots that can survive repeated
mowing for years before infesting nearby
landscape beds, at left!