Lori Tobias, The OregonianHayden Bush, 16, beat out hundreds of science students from around the world with his attempt to extract a biofuel from Scotch broom. Scotch broom What: A noxious weed ...

The Scotch broom gall mite has been studied in controlled greenhouses for the past 20 years, Oneto said. However, U.S. researchers had not given the OK for it to be used as a biological control.

Scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius), also referred to as broom, is a perennial woody plant native to Europe. The species was introduced as a garden ornamental to North America and now is common across ...

Richard Old, XID Services Inc., Bugwood.org Scotch broom From our friends at OSU Extension comes this timely and informative missive about Scotch broom -- that pretty but obnoxiously persistent shrub.

Editor -- This is in response to Sandra Gorry's article "Gardening on the edge," which appeared in the June 29 Chronicle. I disagree with the author's recommendation of Cytisus scoparius as a ...

Scotch broom works in concert with grasses to trigger allergy symptoms, Gohrman said. “It has a real smell to it, and that smell kind of triggers the allergy reaction,” he said.

Evergreen and wide-reaching, the Scotch broom plant can yield over 20,000 seeds that may dwell in the soil for up to 80 years, according to the Clackamas Soil and Water Conservation District.

Invasive Scotch broom is disrupting natural forest succession and ruining prime salmon habitat as its yellow scourge spreads along the Hoh River and in other Olympic Peninsula salmon strongholds.

BREMERTON — The sight of a hillside strewn in Scotch broom is enough for some people to head to the medicine cabinet for antihistamines. But for a beetle, the plant's an endless, all-you-can-eat ...

Scotch broom is aggressive in areas that have been clear-cut for harvest or housing, and it shrouds small native plants or even tree seedlings, preventing them from sprouting. The plant is ...

But war it was, to win back, acre by acre, more than 700 acres of native prairie at Thurston County’s Glacial Heritage Preserve south of Olympia, from an invasion of Scotch broom.