It favors soils that are acidic or neutral and grows well in many light conditions. Once Stiltgrass gets a foothold, it quickly becomes a….
Stiltgrass has been known to frequent back yards, stream banks, floodplains, moist woodlands, and roadsides. Stiltgrass (alias Microstegium vimineum): Japanese Stiltgrass escaped into the United States in the early 1900’s and is currently wreaking havoc from New York to Florida. Its evergreen leaves smother other native forest plants by denying them light… READ MOREĨ. English ivy looks nice climbing up the side of your house and provides great ground cover that you don’t have to mow, but if left unchecked will spread to the neighbor’s yard or the forest. English ivy(alias Hedera helix): English ivy looks nice climbing up the side of your house, but if left unchecked, its potential for escape is notorious. You will rarely see a native honeysuckle though, because they have been almost completely wiped out by the alien species. Native honeysuckles have solid stems while invasive honeysuckles have hollow stems. You can distinguish between them by looking at the stems. Asian Honeysuckle (alias Lonicera morrowii): The Hudson Valley is home to both native and non-native species of Honeysuckle. Rose steals sunlight from the… READ MOREĦ. If she is under a tree, new canes rise from the older ones and climb sometimes 40 ft up a tree, reaching for sunlight, and pulling the top down with the weight. In this way she escapes captivity simply by “walking” across a field or woods. Wild Rose (alias Rosa Multiflora): Wild Rose has thorny canes that arch out from the plant and then send up new shoots when they come in contact with soil. It’s the first to leaf out in the spring, beating all the native understory to the sunlight… READ MORE]ĥ. Many people have been seduced by its autumn shades of red, orange and purple, and its bright red winter berries. In early April to May, tiny pale yellow flowers hang in clusters along the length of the stem. Barberry (alias Berberis thunbergii DC): Barberry is a dense, round, thorny shrub that grows 2 to 6 ft. It doesn’t really matter, they are both wanted for strangling trees, destroying native habitats and climbing up everything in… READ MOREĤ. An interesting fact is that Chinese Wisteria twists clockwise around objects in its path, while Japanese Wisteria twists counterclockwise. Wisteria (alias Wisteria sinensis): There are actually two types of Wisteria Chinese Wisteria (Wisteria sinensis) and Japanese Wisteria (Wisteria foribunda). Oriental bittersweet reproduces by seed and rhizome. They both spiral up the trees and tighten around the trunk like a tourniquet, cutting off the flow of nutrients and strangling the tree.
Bittersweet has berries and rounded oblong, serrated leaves, while Wisteria has pointed, ruffled, serrated leaves. Bittersweet (alias Celastrus orbiculatus): Oriental Bittersweet and Wisteria have similar characteristics.
This is where Grape flourishes, growing much faster than the tree itself, stealing the sunlight and weighing down the branches… READ MOREĢ. Up at the top of the tree it uses its long, spiral tendrils to hang onto leaves and branches. They hang away from the trunk and pull down the branches of the tree as it reaches skyward. Wild Grape (alias Vitis Spp): Grape vine’s knobby, flaky vines don’t hug a tree like Poison Ivy does. This is a list of the 10 most invasive plants that you are likely to find in and around your Hudson Valley yard.Ĭlick on the links below to learn about these invasives.ġ. Poison Ivy Patrol Specialty Landscaping is always on the case to wipe out these invaders!Īnd we do it without using chemicals, herbicides or sprays.