Widespread Species
Regionally abundant and threatening or have already negatively impacted our native flora & fauna
Note the species listed below with an asterisk (*) are still commonly sold in local nurseries and garden centers.
Invasive Trees, Shrubs & Woody Vines
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Common Name |
Botanical Name |
Mid-Atlantic Native Alternative |
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Norway Maple* |
Acer platanoides |
Red or Sugar Maples |
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Tree-of-Heaven* |
Ailanthus altissima |
Native Canopy Trees |
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Japanese Barberry* |
Berberis thunbergii |
Dwarf Fothergilla |
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Oriental Bittersweet* |
Celastrus orbiculatus |
American Bittersweet |
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Autumn Olive* |
Elaeagnus umbellate |
Blackhaw Viburnum / Bayberry |
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Japanese Honeysuckle |
Lonicera japonica |
Trumpet Honeysuckle Vine |
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Amur Honeysuckle |
Lonicera maackii |
Red or Black Chokeberries |
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Morrow's Honeysuckle |
Lonicera morrowii |
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White Mulberry |
Morus alba |
Red Mulberry |
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Multiflora Rose |
Rosa multiflora |
Virginia or Carolina Rose |
Invasive Herbaceous Perennials
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Common Name |
Botanical Name |
Mid-Atlantic Native Alternative |
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Common Yarrow |
Achillea millefolium |
Golden Ragwort |
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Field Garlic |
Allium vineale |
Nodding Onion |
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Common Burdock |
Arctium minus |
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Common Mugwort |
Artemisia vulgaris |
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Crown-vetch* |
Coronilla varia |
Dwarf Bush Honeysuckle |
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Queen Anne's-lace* |
Daucus carota |
Golden Alexander |
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Smooth Crabgrass |
Digitaria ischaemum |
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Canada Thistle |
Cirsium arvense |
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Japanese Knotweed |
Fallopia japonica |
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Gill-over-the-ground |
Glechoma hederacea |
Wild Ginger / Creeping Phlox |
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Orange Day-lily* |
Hemerocallis fulva |
Turk's-cap or Canada Lily |
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Dane's-rocket* |
Hesperis matronalis |
Summer Phlox |
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Ox-Eye Daisy* |
Leucanthemum vulgare |
Robin's Plantain |
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Purple Loosestrife* |
Lythrum salicaria |
Blazing Star or Obedient Plant |
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Japanese Stilt Grass |
Microstegium vimineum |
PA Sedge |
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Common Reed |
Phragmites australis |
Switch Grass |
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Lesser Celandine |
Ranunculus ficaria |
Yellow Trout Lily |
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Wineberry |
Rubus phoenicolasius |
Purple Flowering Raspberry |
Biennuals
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Common Name |
Botanical Name |
Mid-Atlantic Native Alternative |
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Garlic Mustard |
Alliaria petiolata |
Foam Flower |