• Is a invasive plant that is much more disruptive than others

• not many animals eat it

• it crowds other plants and takes up all the room .

• it have flowers which look like little dandelions but when it dies it looks like just a bunch of sticks

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Our 6th and 7th grade class has been trying to answer the question of whether we should preserve the Palouse Prairie that has 99.9% disappeared.  One of our case studies involved native and invasive plant species and their current role in the Prairie ecosystem.

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Source

Walter Fertig from WSU Herbarium

https://plants.usda.gov/DocumentLibrary/plantguide/pdf/pg_chju.pdf