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The Vermont Agency of Agriculture is warning communities about eight new invasive species they have identified throughout the state. The plant species − kudzu, mile-a-minute, Japanese stiltgrass ...
The Vermont Invasives website provides more context along with photos of all invasive species, including aquatic critters and terrestrial plants, and has tips on how to go about removing these ...
Here, a gardening expert outlines common invasive plants, what an invasive plant is, how to get rid of them, and the threats they pose to U.S. agriculture.
These are lists of invasive species by country or region. 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 ...
Like most invasive plants, once garlic mustard is introduced into a new location, it persists and spreads into undisturbed plant communities. In many areas of its introduction in Eastern North America, it has become the dominant under-story species in woodland and flood plain environments, where eradication is difficult. [9]
Leonotis nepetifolia, (also known as klip dagga, Christmas candlestick, or lion's ear [1]), is a species of plant in the genus Leonotis and the family Lamiaceae , It is native to tropical Africa and southern India. It can also be found growing abundantly in much of Latin America, the West Indies, [2] and the Southeastern United States. [3]
The New England cottontail is a medium-sized rabbit almost identical to the eastern cottontail. [8] [9] The two species look nearly identical, and can only be reliably distinguished by genetic testing of tissue, through fecal samples (i.e., of rabbit pellets), or by an examination of the rabbits' skulls, which shows a key morphological distinction: the frontonasal skull sutures of eastern ...
Parthenocissus quinquefolia, known as Virginia creeper, Victoria creeper, five-leaved ivy, or five-finger, is a species of flowering vine in the grape family, Vitaceae.It is native to eastern and central North America, from southeastern Canada and the eastern United States west to Manitoba and Utah, and south to eastern Mexico and Guatemala.