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Butterfly Bush -
October 2017 Weed of the Month
 Late
fall is a great time to trim butterfly bush plants before the seeds fly
away. Seeds can move 40 miles away on the wind and take root everywhere
from roadsides to pristine rivers. The blooms have mostly lost their
purple color and the seeds haven’t been set loose yet. So if you have
butterfly bush in your garden, get out those clippers and bags and stop
it from spreading! Even better, pull it up by the roots and replace it
with something less invasive.
If you aren’t sure why you would want to do that, read on
for more background on this plant.
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 King County Noxious Weed Program
launches web pages in four more languages.
Want to learn more about noxious weeds in Spanish—or know
someone who does? How about Vietnamese, Chinese, Russian, or Somali?
Well now, King County’s Noxious Weed Control Program has made a start
to offer just that. This week, the program launched a revised and
expanded version of its Spanish web page, along with four brand new web
pages hosting noxious-weed-related resources in an array of languages.
You can find these pages gathered under a new “Languages” landing page
as well as linked directly in the right column of the noxious weeds
home page.
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 Join us at Green Seattle Day!
Fall is a great time to plant trees in the Pacific
Northwest and there are so many great tree planting opportunities this
time of year. In Seattle, on November 4 from 9am-noon, the Green
Seattle Partnership will host Green Seattle Day, a huge and awesome tree
planting party at Jefferson Community Park and 21 other parks across
Seattle. Join hundreds of volunteers planting trees all over the city.
The King County Noxious Weed Control Program will be there, too, to
remind people about the importance of brushing your boots when you
traipse through the city’s parks.
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 Give weeds the brush off!
Weed control is hard work so it makes sense to look for
ways to do less of it. Preventing weeds from moving to new places is
one of the easiest things we can all do to reduce the need for weed
control. Plants don’t walk from place to place, but they can hitch a
ride on those of us who do. Some seeds attach themselves to socks and
shoe laces, others simply hide in the dirt that we carry on our boots
and tools, and in the mud that our furry friends like to roll in.
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 Big changes proposed for the 2018
Washington State Noxious Weed List.
The Washington State Noxious Weed Control Board is
considering several significant changes for next year’s state noxious
weed list. These include adding small-flowered jewelweed (Impatiens
parviflora) and European coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara) as
Class A and B noxious weeds, respectively—additions originally proposed
by the King County Noxious Weed Control Program. Also of interest in
King County is the proposal to add spotted jewelweed (Impatiens
capensis) to the Class C noxious weed list. You can find more
information on these and other changes being proposed to the noxious
weed list at the Washington State Noxious Weed Board’s “What’s New”
page.
The State Weed Board welcomes comments about the proposed
changes. You can submit written testimony regarding these proposed
changes by email to noxiousweeds@agr.wa.gov,
by mail to WSNWCB, P.O. Box 42560, Olympia WA 98504-2560 by Monday,
October 30, or by attending the public hearing on October 31 at 1:00
p.m. at the Coast Conference Center in Wenatchee. Click Read More below
for links to more information.
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Sasha Shaw, King
County Noxious Weed Control Program
Please feel free to distribute this information freely and
to contact me if you have any questions.
Thank you.
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