Invasive Plants & Their Alternatives
The Dirty Dozen of Invasive Plants: Do not plant these!
- Garlic Mustard
- Giant Hogweed
- Japanese/Bohemian Knotweed
- Japanese Stiltgrass
- Mile-A-Minute Vine
- Oriental Bittersweet
- Pale/Black Swallow-wort
- Phragmites
- Porcelain Berry
- Purple Loosestrife
- Water Chestnut
| INVASIVE SPECIES |
NON-INVASIVE ALTERNATIVES |
|
Norway Maple |
Maples (Acer rubrum, A. saccharinum), Oaks (Quercus spp.), Tulip poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera), Sweet gum (Liquidambar styraciflua), Black gum (Nyssa sylvatica) |
| Callery Pear | American Plum (Prunus americana), Redbud (Cercis canadensis), Shadbush (Amelanchier spp.), Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) |
| Barberries | Brambles (Rubus spp.), Roses (Rosa virginana, R. caroliniana) Winterberry (Ilex verticillata), Highbush cranberry (Viburnum americanum) |
| Autumn Olive & Russian Olive | Spicebush (Lindera benzoi), Pussywillows (salix discolor), Shrubby St. John's-wort (Hypericum prolificum), Hobblebush (Viburnum lantanoides), Pepperbush (Clethra alnifolia) |
| Bittersweet & Porcelain Berry | Woodbine (Parthenocissus vitacea), Wild grapes (vitis spp.), Virgin's bower (Clematis virginiana) |
| Wisteria | Honeysuckles (Lonicera sempervirens L. dioica), Allegheny vine (Adlumia fungosa), Trumpet creeper (Campsis radicans) |
| Purple Loosestrife | Vervain (Verbena hastata), Eastern lupine (Lupinus perennis), Blazing stars (Liatris spp.) |
| Burning Bush | Highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum), Red chokeberry (Aronia arbutifolium), Mapleleaf viburnum (Viburnum acerifolium), Virginia sweet spice (Itea virginica) |
The above table is taken from The Nature Conservancy Eastern New York Chapter wallet card for Invasive Plants and Their Alternatives