Outdoors column: Poison ivy causes rashes, but benefits wildlife
The key to living peacefully with, and even enjoying poison ivy, is to learn to recognize it and admire it from afar.
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8 Harmful Weeds You Should Never Touch with Bare Skin
It produces an oily, toxic compound called urushiol that makes most of us burst into rashes and blisters on contact. Poison ...
Opinion: Weed or not, these hardy plants thrive in the heat
Goetze: I’m always amazed and impressed by elements of our local flora that seem to be unfazed by the hot and dry seasonal ...
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How to Grow Witch Hazel, a Showy Shrub With Year-Round Color
The ingredient has been long used to treat or manage rashes, razor burns, poison ivy, and insect bites ... shrub is best planted in the very early spring or fall, says Lynne Holland, a master ...
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Keep forgetting your shingles shot? These sufferers wish they hadn’t.
typically creating a rash on one side of the body. For Greeley, it was the right side, and she thought she might have been bitten by a bug or walked through poison ivy, but her sister — the ...
5 Things People of Color Need to Know About Eczema
Black people in the US are not only more likely than other folks to get eczema in childhood, but may have harder-to-treat or ...