Widespread Species
Regionally abundant and threatening or have already negatively impacted our native flora & fauna.
Note the species listed below with an asterisk (*) are still commonly sold in local nurseries and garden centers
Invasive Trees, Shrubs and Vines
Common Name
Norway Maple*
Tree of Heaven*
Japanese Barberry*
Oriental Bittersweet*
Autumn Olive*
Japanese Honeysuckle
Amur Honeysuckle
Morrow’s Honeysuckle
White Mulberry
Multiflora Rose
Botanical Name
Acer Platanoides
Ailanthus Altissima
Berberis Thunbergil
Celatrus Orbiculatus
Elaegnus Umbellate
Lonicera Japonica
Lonicera Maackii
Lonicera Morrowii
Morus Alba
Rosa Multiflora
Mid-Atlantic Native Alternative
Red or Sugar Maples
Native Canopy Trees
Dwarf Fothergilla
American Bittersweet
Blackhaw Viburnum or Bayberry
Trumpet Honeysuckle Vine
Red or Black Chokeberries
Red Mulberry
Virginia or Carolina Rose
Invasive Herbaceous Perennials
Common Name
Common Yarrow
Field Garlic
Common Burdock
Common Mugwort
Crown Vetch*
Queen Anne’s-lace*
Smooth Crabgrass
Canada Thistle
Japanese Knotweed
Gill-over-the-ground
Orange Day-lily*
Danes-rocket*
Ox-eye Daisy*
Purple Loosestrife*
Japanese Stilt Grass
Common Reed
Lesser Celandine
Wineberry
Botanical Name
Achillea Millefolium
Allium Vineale
Arctium Minus
Artemisia Vulgaris
Coronilla Varia
Daucus Carota
Digitaria Ischaemum
Cirsium Arvense
Fallopia Japonica
Glechoma Hederacea
Hemerocallis. Fulva
Hesperis Matronalis
Leucanthemum. Vulgare
Lythrum Salicaria
Microstegium Vimineum
Phragmites Australis
Ranunculus Ficaria
Rubus Phoenicolasius
Mid-Atlantic Native Alternative
Golden Ragwort
Nodding Onion
Dwarf Bush Honeysuckle
Golden Alexander
Wild Ginger or Creeping Phlox
Turk’s-cap or Canada Lily
Summer Phlox
Robin’s Plantain
Blazing Star or Obedient Plant
PA Sedge
Switch Grass
Yellow Trout Lilly
Purple Flowering Raspberry
Biennuals
Common Name
Garlic Mustard
Botanical Name
Alliria Petiolata
Mid-Atlantic Native Alternative
Foam Flower