Disturbed vs. Undisturbed Nature!

Kudzu seems to be a rather interesting case – according to Porcher & Rayner’s A Guide to the Wildflowers of South Carolina, the plant doesn’t produce viable seeds in South Carolina. (I don’t know about elsewhere.) I know that when I was down that way last year I expected to see a lot more of the stuff, based on extrapolating from what I remembered from when I was last in the Southeast. On the other hand, when it does become established on a site…