Location

Along a section of Ruth Street in the little residential community of Elkhorn on the Little North Fork of the Santiam River east of Stayton (west of Elkhorn Dr). It appears to us that it may have escaped around 35165 Ruth Street (north side of Ruth Street) and has moved agressively into the Santiam state forest harvest unit to the south of Ruth Street (about a 2006-7 harvest). (Most of the residences there are only used seasonally). We didn't find it much past 50 feet south of Ruth Street but it is very clearly invading the disturbed area after harvesting and looks scary. We also found another ginger-leaf looking plant that has invaded even more severely but we are less certain about the identification of that plant. I feel very confident this is the plant that I learned about in the Weed Watcher workshop last week in Forest Grove. We were very surprised to find it so soon after the class. I used the GPS on my Iphone to get the coordinates.