State officials are asking Michiganders venturing outside this spring to be on the lookout for an invasive groundcover that could crowd out native plants. Lesser celandine, sometimes known as fig ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Underneath a mask of bright yellow blossoms and heart-shaped leaves, an invasive species is threatening native mid-Michigan flora.

There is a small plant with shiny green leaves and yellow flowers that seems to be taking over sections of my garden, and is even growing in the lawn. It disappears later in spring. What is this, and ...

PORTLAND, MI – There’s a pretty, little flower with yellow petals and heart-shaped leaves that grows in thick mats across the forest floor in parts of Michigan. The lesser celandine, also known as fig ...

Lesser celandine, commonly called fig buttercup, has distinctive kidney shaped leaves appearing in a rosette. As the plant takes hold it creeps along the ground and will quickly spread throughout a ...

I noticed lesser celandine sprouting in my garden a couple of weeks ago, so it is time to begin control measures. Lesser celandine (Ficaria verna) is a very invasive spring ephemeral perennial plant ...

DEAR JESSICA: I planted what I call camouflage, or chameleon plant. It started to take over, so I pulled it all out. Now, a decade later, it is still “crashing the party.” It is in densely planted ...

This profile of lesser celandine is another in a series on invasive plants from the City Green blog by the Portland Bureau of Environmental Services. Spring is definitely early this year, and one ...