A very closely related weed is pale willow weed (Persicaria lapathifolia), which looks very similar to willow weed but the seed head is a paler pink, hence its name, often there is no blotch on the ...

It can also sometimes be found in damp waste areas and crops. The best way to differentiate water pepper from willow weed is when they are flowering. The flowering parts of water pepper are not as ...

The pink flower weed is invading and destroying our indigenous grasslands, and livestock farmers, who do not control this weed, will go bankrupt, says Melville Koppies chairperson Wendy Carstens.

Except it isn’t a lawn covered in grass, but rather a deep pink carpet of flowers. Not only is your lawn covered in flowers, but you never need to mow it, water it, or pull weeds out of it.