Butomus umbellatus may conjure up images of a hippopotamus belly, but in reality, it is flowering rush, an aquatic invasive plant species that poses a grave threat to the Columbia River Basin’s ...

INVASIVE SPECIES – Sandpoint-area residents are organizing this week to pounce on an new unwanted aquatic invader to Lake Pend Oreille. A public work party to stop the spread of flowering rush ...

By the mid-1990s, flowering rush had spread to six other lakes connected to Curfman: Big and Little Detroit, Sallie, Melissa, Muskrat and Mill Pond.

Hydrilla and flowering rush are specifically listed as part of the program, but through research and development efforts, treatment can be applied to other invasive and nuisance species as well.

The invasive plant, flowering rush, has been discovered in new locations along the Chippewa River and in the Tittabawasee River beyond the convergence of the two at The Tridge. July of 2022 was ...

Flowering rush can be identified by its umbel cluster of 25 to 50 pink flowers and can generally be found along shorelines of slow-moving water, but can also grow deeper than 9 feet under water in ...

Aug. 19—The North Dakota Game and Fish Department is asking for the public's help in identifying populations of flowering rush, an aquatic nuisance species, after separate findings by department ...