FOR MORE INFORMATION …New England Wild Flower Society

newfs.org

Invasive Plant Atlas of New Englandeddmaps.org/ipane

Source: Donna Ellis, Senior Extension Educator, University of Connecticut; co-chair, Connecticut Invasive Plant

Working Group (hort.uconn.edu/cipwg)

We’ve compiled a list of 20 of New England’s most common non-native species—ones you may find in your own backyard.

Know New England’s Japanese Knotweed Tree-of-Heaven

Japanese Barberry

Oriental Bittersweet

Multif lora Rose

Common Reed

Giant Hogweed

Autumn Olive

Mile-a-Minute Weed

Garlic Mustard

Japanese Stilt Grass PorcelainberryCommon Buckthorn

WineberryBlack Locust

Black & Pale Swallow-Worts

Vine & Shrub Honeysuckles

Norway Maple

Purple Loosestrife

Burning Bush

Fallopia japonica or Polygonum cuspidatum

Celastrus orbiculatus

Phragmites australis

Rosa multiflora

Heracleum mantegazzianum

Alliaria petiolata

Persicaria perfoliata or Polygonum perfoliatum

Ampelopsis brevipedunculataMicrostegium vimineum

Elaeagnus umbellata

Rhamnus cathartica

Rubus phoenicolasiusRobinia pseudoacacia

Cynanchum louiseae & Cynanchum rossicum

Lonicera japonica, L. maackii,

L. morrowii, L. tataricaAcer platanoides

Lythrum salicaria

Euonymus alatus

Berberis thunbergii

Ailanthus altissima

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