The beautiful, yet destructive, pink PomPom weed is invading the Melville Koppies grasslands, threatening local ecosystems and livestock farmers.

Except it isn’t a lawn covered in grass, but rather a deep pink carpet of flowers. Not only is your lawn covered in flowers, but you never need to mow it, water it, or pull weeds out of it.

Scrambling fumitory is a clambering annual weed that can grow at any time of the year ... Flowers are conspicuous clusters of about a dozen pink florets, with a distinctive purple colour at the end.

Although when growing in bare areas with few other plants around willow weed will scramble along the ground, it can also grow upright under some conditions such as within crops, becoming competitive ...

Like when people come to Detroit, they’ll be like ‘yeah I saw the Renaissance Center, I went to Belle Isle, and I got a Pink Panties Pizza.'” The name is a nod to the strain of weed used in ...