Mile-a-minute weed

The mile-a-minute weed also known as devil's tail generally colonizes open and warm areas, it grows along the edges of woods, stream banks, and roadsides. The mile-a-minute weed grows very rapidly up to six inches a day; it has barbed stems and leaves the shape of triangles that attaches to other plants. The mile-a-minute weed climes over other plants to reach more sun light in the process killing the native plant. The mile-a-minute weed is also a threat to trees that are regeneration in open areas and plantations. The mile-a-minute weed also can be spread easily by birds eating the berries then transporting the seed to other places this is the key to the plans survival. The mile-a minute-weed is a native to Asia; it was introduced accidentally in the 1930s to the United Sates as a hitchhiker with other important plants to nursery in Pennsylvania. The plant was left to grow and very quickly it got out of control and spread threw out the east coast.