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Old 06-03-2008, 05:07 PM
 
Location: Signal Mountain, Tennessee
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I don't have pictures, but when I was up in the Cumberland Mountains this past year, I came across a ground cover that was merely a long stem, no leaves, about the circumference of a pencil, covered in thorns - it is green.

Does anyone know what I am describing and how do you control it?
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Old 06-03-2008, 06:08 PM
 
Location: Seattle
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It's SuperKudzu, Grizzly.
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Old 06-03-2008, 06:45 PM
 
Location: Signal Mountain, Tennessee
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It's SuperKudzu, Grizzly.
That's not nice...I looked it up
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Old 06-04-2008, 03:53 AM
 
Location: Tennessee
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It sounds like a briar (which are quite common in Tennessee), but I don't think of briars as being a "ground cover".
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Old 06-04-2008, 04:56 AM
 
Location: Signal Mountain, Tennessee
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It sounds like a briar (which are quite common in Tennessee), but I don't think of briars as being a "ground cover".
A briar, thanks Alleycat. Is there a way to control them with a herbicide?
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Old 06-04-2008, 05:40 AM
 
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If there's not too much of it, I think I would just cut it back at ground level (wearing gloves and heavy clothes when I did), and then just keep the area cleared after that. Briars are not a particularly invasive type of plants; it shouldn't be that hard to keep them from coming back once you cut them out the first time. If there is a lot of it, you might consider hiring someone with a bushhog to mow over the area.

In case you didn't already find out, those thorns are like steel barbs. Don't get stuck with one of them if you can help it.
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Old 06-04-2008, 07:51 AM
 
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Unless your briar rabbit. Pleeeassse dont throw me in that thar briar patch.
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Old 06-04-2008, 08:40 AM
 
Location: Signal Mountain, Tennessee
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Thanks for the suggestion on the bush hog, I just might have that done. Was fortunate not to get stuck, but did manage to get tangled in my jeans a couple of times.
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Old 06-04-2008, 04:52 PM
 
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Just out of curiosity, are these briars in an area between a wooded area and a more opening area? In other words, neither field nor woods. Or are there in an area that has been fairly recently graded (such as by a bulldozer)? Or something else?
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Old 06-04-2008, 06:28 PM
 
Location: Signal Mountain, Tennessee
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Just out of curiosity, are these briars in an area between a wooded area and a more opening area? In other words, neither field nor woods. Or are there in an area that has been fairly recently graded (such as by a bulldozer)? Or something else?

Good question. They are primarily in an area that was graded between the road and the woods, though some are in the woods. Why the question?
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