Invasive Plants of South Mountain Reservation

Invasive plants are disruptive to our local ecosystems, because they've been separated from the insects and animals that eat them in their original habitat. As a result, they grow unchecked, here, and threaten to crowd out the native species that our local insects, birds, and other animals ...mais ↓

Japanese knotweed 1
Reynoutria japonica
Japanese barberry 2
Berberis thunbergii
Wineberry 3
Rubus phoenicolasius
multiflora rose 4
Rosa multiflora
garlic mustard 5
Alliaria petiolata
common mugwort 6
Artemisia vulgaris
winged euonymus 7
Euonymus alatus
Japanese stiltgrass 8
Microstegium vimineum
Japanese honeysuckle 9
Lonicera japonica
mile-a-minute weed 10
Persicaria perfoliata
Christmas berry 11
Pourthiaea villosa
sapphire-berry 12
Symplocos paniculata
Oriental bittersweet 14
Celastrus orbiculatus
jetbead 15
Rhodotypos scandens
Norway maple 16
Acer platanoides
linden viburnum 17
Viburnum dilatatum
Siebold's Viburnum 18
Viburnum sieboldii
common buckthorn 19
Rhamnus cathartica
tree-of-heaven 20
Ailanthus altissima
Chinese bushclover 21
Lespedeza cuneata
common alder 22
Alnus glutinosa
autumn olive 23
Elaeagnus umbellata

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