Kudzu is sometimes called "the vine that ate the South." Anyone who's lived or visited the southeastern U.S. can certainly understand why. The fast-growing vine swarms over trees and buildings and ...

It takes a lot of bad behavior for a plant to land on the USDA's invasive species list, but kudzu (Pueraria montana) has earned this notoriety. Nicknamed "the vine that ate the South," it has ...

What is kudzu? Did you know that this plant isn't actually from the southern US? These are fast-growing, invasive vines native to Japan and southeast China that have become a major ecological concern.

In the 1930s, farmers and government agents across the American South sowed fields with a popular new Asian import called kudzu that promised to help fight devastating erosion problems. The ...

For the past two weeks, two local nonprofit organizations, The Pisgah Conservancy and EcoForesters, have worked together to ...