Not just a pretty flower, orange hawkweed is terrorizing some Haines gardeners, who would do just about anything to get rid of it.
“I’m actually burning hawkweed right now,” said resident Gina St. Clair. “I just dug some out of my yard and cleaned up my incinerator.”
“There are entire neighborhoods and roadways and yards that are just covered with hawkweed,” she added.
Hawkweeds are in the sunflower family and are related to dandelions. The…