Invasive plant identification and removal is a very important stewardship activity. Lead Stewards create a specific stewardship plan for their site and direct Stewards on which invasive plants to remove.
Use the following invasive plant information sheets to learn about identification, removal, and disposal:
- Burdock – Arctium minus/A. lappa
- Common Buckthorn – Rhamnus cathartica
- Common Tansy – Tanecetum vulgare
- Creeping Bellflower – Campanula rapunculoides
- Dog-strangling Vine – Vincetoxicum rossicum
- Garlic Mustard – Alliaria petiolata
- Greater Celandine – Chelidonium majus
- Hedge Parsley – Torilis arvensis/T. japonica
- Japanese Knotweed – Reynoutria japonica
- Lily-of-the-Valley – Convallaria majalis
- Motherwort – Leonurus cardiaca
- Norway Maple – Acer platanoides
- Periwinkle – Vinca minor
- Phragmites – Phragmites australis
- Spindle Tree/Burning Bush – Euonymus europaeus/E. alatus
- Wood Avens – Geum urbanum