OAKLAND — It’s not hard to mistake French broom for an ornamental plant at first blush, with its yellow flowers, evergreen leaflets and slender branches. But some Oakland hills residents know there’s ...

Now is the perfect time to pull French Broom — and reduce fire hazards. The little yellow flowers of the ubiquitous French Broom blanketing the Oakland hills may serve as a harbinger of spring, but ...

A-J reader L.W. of Lubbock asks if the floriferous, yellow flowering shrubs in full bloom for the last several weeks are Scotch or Spanish brooms. There are actually several brooms – Spanish, Scotch ...

FELTON >> The management of land as sensitive and rare as the sandhills habitat in the Santa Cruz Mountains is complex — no perfect solution exists for some problems. Such is the San Lorenzo Valley ...

ZAYANTE >> A super bloom of 20,000 French broom plants is on the verge of casting more than 150 million seeds across the sandhills habitat of the Olympia Watershed. In order to minimize the impact of ...

As that suggests, French broom to the casual eye hardly looks like a villain. Although a weed in Westwood, its bright yellow flowers when blooming make it look fit for a garden. “It’s beautiful,” ...

French broom can be fire hazard. National Park Service This could be a tough time for fire-alert North Coast residents, with a heat wave, some winds, periodic burning by Cal Fire of downed trees and ...

At first I loved them. I marveled at their ability to bloom profusely with only the seasonal rains. They painted broad strokes of yellow across Marin County. Turns out broom, along with a host of ...

We’re into late spring now, and the broom all around the county is into full reproduction mode, especially after the miracle rains last fall. If you’re not familiar with broom, which is one of Marin’s ...

Inspired by the service legacy of Martin Luther King, volunteer invasive species battlers came to Westwood Hills Park on Monday to make a clean sweep of French broom. The Westwood Hills Park event was ...