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The Indiana Dunes is an area of land beside Lake Michigan, in the State of Indiana, United States. It includes Indiana Dunes National Park and Indiana Dunes State Park. Non-native plant species, specifically invasive species, have colonized that area. Invasive plants are those plants that aggressively spread throughout an area and out-compete ...
Hoosier National Forest, other agencies and volunteers are mapping where invasive plants are growing in Indiana's Charles C. Deam Wilderness.
This is a list of invasive species in North America.A species is regarded as invasive if it has been introduced by human action to a location, area, or region where it did not previously occur naturally (i.e., is not a native species), becomes capable of establishing a breeding population in the new location without further intervention by humans, and becomes a pest in the new location ...
Pages in category "Lists of invasive plants in the United States" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Asian bush honeysuckle can choke out native plants and destroy natural food sources for birds and wildlife. Asian bush honeysuckle is one of Indiana's most common invasive plants Skip to main content
Garlic mustard is one of the first plants to appear in the spring and has earned top rank as one of the states worst invasive plants by the Indiana Invasive Species Council. The plant gets its ...
Non-native invasive species can disrupt ecosystems because they do not have natural predators, or other ecological checks-and-balances. Thus, with less competition from native species, non-native populations can explode. [9] Invasive insects and pathogens have eliminated entire tree species from forests of the United States in as little as decades.
New Orleans, the "gateway to the Mississippi", is a porous port city with rich soils. In turn, many aquatic plants are introduced to the region, making Louisiana the state with the second largest list of invasive aquatic species, [91] second to Florida. The "Dirty Dozen" [92] details a list of the United States' most destructive invasive species.