Giant knotweed, a terrestrial herbaceous plant in the Polygonaceae family, invades along waterways, roads, forest openings, and disturbed sites where dumped. Key characteristics of this invasive ...

They began placing the bugs on individual knotweed plants covered with netting to make sure they performed as expected. The ...

The expert gardeners of the subreddit leapt into action, with several speculating the offending plant was giant knotweed (and a few more suggesting that it could be a different variety of knotweed).

typically grows to be 10 feet tall with stems that are hollow like bamboo spade-shaped leaves with pointed tips and flat bases that are smaller than the leaves of invasive giant knotweed produces ...