On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 23:06:20 GMT in rec.travel.usa-canada, Tim923
wrote:

This weed grows like crazy in upstate NY in Binghamton. Is this stuff
all over the US northeast?

if you mean japanese knotweed, Polygonum cuspidatum, it's been
spread by idiots to southeastern alaska, as well as the pacific
northwest.

see http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/pubs...antic/pocu.htm