FireWeed

Description:

Green, small, Bushy, 6in-1foot high plant with many yellow flowers.

Habitat:

Dry areas and wet areas.

Notes:

We have a 3 acre horse farm in Lower Kula, Maui. My brother, Mom and I have been trying to eradicate the fireweed plant from our property and the 5 acre property next door that we care take. We have been successful in eliminating and keeping the fireweed out of our property but cannot with the property next door. The property below it, which also is 5 acres is vacant as well as the 5 acres we let our horses graze on. The fireweed keeps coming into the pasture from the axis deer that live in the combined 10 acres. We used to pull it and put it in bags.We would then dump the bags in the deep gulch next to our house. We found out after years of pulling the weed that touching it can give you kidney problems so we stopped doing that. We got special poison from the State of Hawaii but it was so time consuming, toxic, there was so much of it in pastures that we could not control, that we gave up. The drought the last 3 years has helped keep it under control, until the rains come.