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Invasive species in Franklin Park

These plants are on the Virginia Invasive Plant Species List and/or the Maryland Invasive Plant List, or they are emerging invasives being tracked by National Capital PRISM, and have been sighted in our neighborhood. We need your help eradicating these from our yards, gardens, and forests.

leatherleaf mahonia 1
Berberis bealei
Japanese stiltgrass 2
Microstegium vimineum
Oriental bittersweet 3
Celastrus orbiculatus
Porcelain Berry 4
Ampelopsis glandulosa
Japanese knotweed 5
Reynoutria japonica
Heavenly bamboo 6
Nandina domestica
ground-ivy 7
Glechoma hederacea
Amur honeysuckle 8
Lonicera maackii
Japanese barberry 9
Berberis thunbergii
fortune's spindle 10
Euonymus fortunei
small carpetgrass 11
Arthraxon hispidus
Chinese privet 12
Ligustrum sinense
common ivy 13
Hedera helix
beefsteak plant 14
Perilla frutescens
winged euonymus 15
Euonymus alatus
garlic mustard 16
Alliaria petiolata
Japanese wisteria 17
Wisteria floribunda
Norway maple 18
Acer platanoides
stinging nettle 19
Urtica dioica
Persian silk tree 20
Albizia julibrissin
multiflora rose 21
Rosa multiflora
Japanese honeysuckle 22
Lonicera japonica
wineberry 23
Rubus phoenicolasius
border privet 24
Ligustrum obtusifolium
greater periwinkle 25
Vinca major
Asiatic dayflower 26
Commelina communis
lesser periwinkle 27
Vinca minor
Callery pear 28
Pyrus calleryana
linden viburnum 29
Viburnum dilatatum
common chickweed 30
Stellaria media
Ivy-leaved Speedwell 31
Veronica hederifolia
white mulberry 14
Morus alba
fishpole bamboo 32
Phyllostachys aurea
low smartweed 33
Persicaria longiseta
lesser celandine 34
Ficaria verna
Arrow Bamboo 35
Pseudosasa japonica
Italian arum 36
Arum italicum
creeping Jenny 37
Lysimachia nummularia
Chinese yam 38
Dioscorea polystachya
common mugwort 39
Artemisia vulgaris
Crowdipper 40
Pinellia ternata
tea viburnum 41
Viburnum setigerum
Japanese snowball 42
Viburnum plicatum
Goutweed 2
Aegopodium podagraria
Liliturfs 43
Liriope
mile-a-minute weed 44
Persicaria perfoliata
Asian jumpseed 45
Persicaria filiformis
Chinese pennisetum 14
Cenchrus alopecuroides

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