Hi, I have a plant in my garden that is very invasive. It spreads by underground tough horizontal woody runners that are at least 12" deep with quite fragile pink tinged white underground vertical stems leading to tougher above ground vertical stems with milky sticky sap that can grow to 3' tall. The plant is attractive, with greyish green leaves and small pink flowers. It has spread agressively from the edge of my garden into berry plants and the lawn. It is very hard to dig deep enough to reach the woody roots, while the stems snap off the root easily if you try to pull them. If you remove the stems it produces new ones within a week. It's spreading into the lawn so I'd love any tips you might have for getting rid of it! Thanks
Not dogbane I think. The flowers are different and the leaves are broader. I've now attached a photo.
Apocynum androsaemifolium aka spreading dogbane. Sounds like your situation is ideal for this native plant.
I have it growing on my property and it is not invasive here at all. I enjoy it and love its sweet scent.
I loved it too as a border plant. It's very pretty.... until I planted a berry patch and it started to invade the berries, bark mulch and lawn. I notice that it's a problem for commercial blueberry growers and I'm not surprised. The runners are quite deep and difficult to dig out in my stony soil.
