Brought to the United States as an ornamental porch decoration, the kudzu vine has reshaped itself into ladder fuel for wildfires.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 5 Facts About Kudzu You Need to Know They don’t call it the vine that ate the South for nothing. Kudzu has a big reputation, but ...

These invasive bugs come in looking for warmth.

Kudzu, a Japanese vine originally brought to North Carolina in the late 1800s, is an invasive species that spreads rapidly, taking over resources that other plants need to survive. It can cause ...

Kudzu is probably the South's most famous invasive species, and anybody who's driven around down here probably knows it can grow anywhere, was widely and deliberately planted to fight erosion, and ...

An invasive species of plant called “the scourge of the South” has a new strike against it. Recent research shows that the impact of kudzu is more troublesome than had been previously thought. When it ...

Kudzu, a fast-growing and invasive Asian vine introduced in the American South several decades ago, has now blanketed more than 7 million acres of the region, making it sometimes seem more common than ...

Most people living in the Potomac area are used to a sight common along the beltway and area roadsides. That is, thick masses of coiling, dark green vines climbing all over other native trees and ...

Jeanne Price has learned to love the wildy invasive kudzu vines that blanket so much of the South. That’s because the honeybees she keeps at a Bostic, N.C., farm can’t resist the sweet purple kudzu ...

As of May, kudzu patches covered at least 110 acres of Indiana landscape, with most of the 36 counties with confirmed infestations in the state’s southern half. Eighty-eight percent of those 109 sites ...

It's been a long, hot summer thus far for the NASCAR brass. Skyrocketing fuel prices are keeping fans away from the track, and as America steams toward a seemingly inevitable future without internal ...