Chamberbitter aka Gripeweed

This is a plant I’ve had my eye on out of concern. I even saw a thread on the GA forum that was titled…”Beware of this plant!!!”…..

Now I concur that it’s definitely aggressive and spreading….a lot of that though is directly associated with me disturbing areas and mowing….. therefore promoting its spread. I’ve seen something here at the end of the summer though that alleviates a lot of my concerns. As the other plants have hardened off and went to seed……the deer have started to absolutely hammer the gripeweed. I don’t mean just a little bit of browsing here and there either….I mean it looks like they’re mowing it down as the nights go on. Just about every plant I see has been browsed on…….Some of the smaller plants have been eaten back to the ground. Some solid patches of it that look like you cut it across the top with hedge trimmers.

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