Honeysuckle is smothering Kansas City forests. Naturalists say native plants, fire, or sheep may help

Something is suffocating Missouri’s forest floors. It’s leafy, it’s dense, it’s pervasive, and it can grow so thick that it walls off the understory of a forest. It’s honeysuckle. Bush honeysuckle is not native to Missouri, yet it can be found almost anywhere in the…

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