Highly invasive plant that was brought here cuz it's pretty.

Grew natively in mountains in Eurasia, peeps brought it over in the early 1900s. Thing spreads like running bamboo though and is capable of going nuts. It's all over the eastern seaboard now so it won't be long before we're seeing it in Florida (if it's not already here).

I think the furthest south they're aware of it being right now is NC.

Crazy thing is that it eliminates your skin's ability to reflect UV rays.

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Posted: 07/13/2018 at 09:20AM

SIR - incoming Tech freshman burned by giant hogweed -- North Main Hokie 07/13/2018 09:05AM

Read about it last month, nasty stuff ** -- fordham 07/13/2018 09:31AM

Where did it come from? Suddenly they appear. ** -- TomTurkey 07/13/2018 09:10AM

Pods from outer space would be my guess. ** -- HokieNoVA 07/13/2018 09:44AM

As were we ** -- TomTurkey 07/13/2018 09:45AM

Nah, media frenzy, I read about it ten years ago in the WaPo -- `lag 07/13/2018 09:39AM

Highly invasive plant that was brought here cuz it's pretty. -- HokieinTampa 07/13/2018 09:20AM

So it'll be a plant-based apocalypse? Didn't see that one coming. ** -- HokieNoVA 07/13/2018 10:24AM

Never saw little shop of horrors^^^ -- HokieinTampa 07/13/2018 10:28AM

Or The Happening. ** -- hokiehunter07 07/13/2018 12:56PM

Shouldn’t plant it kudzu could hurt someone ** -- VT Pops 07/13/2018 10:00AM

It reminds me of St. Ann's Lace that we had back home -- TomTurkey 07/13/2018 09:38AM

This -- TomTurkey 07/13/2018 09:42AM

Yeah, I read that it was oft mistaken for St Ann's Lace or vice versa. ** -- HokieinTampa 07/13/2018 09:40AM

Nah, 15 feet versus 2 feet. There are Cow Parsnips though... -- `lag 07/13/2018 09:48AM

I just learned of it in the last month or two -- TomTurkey 07/13/2018 09:58AM

It's not very common, I do a lot of hiking and never seen it... -- `lag 07/13/2018 10:03AM

Yeah but if you just see pics of Hogweed on the interwebs and then go out -- HokieinTampa 07/13/2018 09:51AM

Understand, just maybe take a pic and send it to the extension folks.. -- `lag 07/13/2018 09:56AM

The story says“In Virginia, it doesn’t seem to be spreading at all,” -- 48zip 07/13/2018 09:25AM

NY State DEC actually established a fund to eradicate it. If you spot any -- Late 80s Hokie 07/13/2018 09:37AM

Highly invasive plant that was brought here cuz it's pretty.

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