If you live in California, beds of ice plant are so common you'd be forgiven for thinking it's a native species. In reality, ice plant (Carpobrutus edulis), a species widely grown throughout the state ...

In the early 1900s, California planted the ice plant on railway embankments as a means to control erosion, and the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) later planted it in roadside areas ...

If you’ve been to any beach on the Sonoma Coast, you likely have seen ice plant. The invasive species looks like a bunch of tiny succulents and often sprouts purple flowers. Despite how pretty these ...