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C. Lee Greentree wrote:
I know "invasive" can be a very inflammatory word, so I use it carefully to mean a species that is not merely non-native, but whose spread has done measurable harm to local ecology and/or agriculture. A bit like calling them "weeds"; many "weed" plants can be wonderful in their own right, but if they damage the crop on which you depend, I understand the frustration and need to control it.
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Michael said, "My suggestion is to research each plant and learn about how it can ruin an environment.
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Mike Haasl wrote:I think there's a spectrum of invasiveness that also needs to be taken into consideration. There are plants that are very invasive and spread readily in southern WI that barely can eek out a living up where I live. So I'd probably be willing to grow it here, knowing it won't spread in my conditions. But that's still a risk.
Maybe another way of thinking about it... Are invasive insects ok to import? Or animals? Maybe some wild pigs would be nice for my area so that there would be more bacon running around. Or some emerald ash borer to provide more food for my chickens. Or tasty rabbits for people in Australia. We immediately recognize the risk of spread with animals that aren't balanced to the environment they're placed in. So why are we so quick to say that plants are ok to spread when we don't truly understand the impacts of those decisions.
I'm just urging caution....
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C. Lee Greentree wrote:
The main plants I'm eyeing, which I am told are invasive - though none outright banned - by my local authorities, are:
Caragana arborescens, Siberian pea shrub
Elaeagnus umbellata, Autumn olive
Cyperus esculentus, Chufa or tiger nut
It can compete with native shrubs in forest and savanna environments and overtake grassland areas and convert them to shrublands.
Smooth juneberry (Amelanchier laevis)
Gray dogwood (Cornus racemosa)
Chokecherry (Prunus virginiana)
Bush honeysuckle (Diervilla lonicera)
Nannyberry (Viburnum lentago)
American hazelnut (Corylus Americana)
Autumn olive can spread in a wide range of habitats including forest edges, meadows, open woods, pastures, riverbanks, roadsides, and disturbed areas. It has nitrogen-fixing root nodules that change soil chemistry and allow it to survive in poor soils.
Red osier dogwood (Cornus sericea)
Smooth juneberry (Amelanchier laevis)
Nannyberry (Viburnum lentago)
Chokecherry (Prunus virginiana)
Pussy willow (Salix discolor)
C. esculentus is cultivated for its edible tubers, called earth almonds or tiger nuts (due to the stripes on their tubers and their hard shell), as a snack food and for the preparation of horchata de chufa, a sweet, milk-like beverage.
Cyperus esculentus can be found wild, as a weed, or as a crop. It is an invasive species outside its native range,
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New groundskeeper of 3.75 acres in central MN
Anne Miller wrote:I have a suggestion, the OP only wanted to talk about three plants.
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greg mosser wrote:just to devil’s advocate a little, goats delight in eating kudzu, and a good flour/starch can be isolated from the tubers. it’s definitely not something to just plant everywhere, but it’s not the unapproachable and useless plant it’s frequently given credit for being. and if we had a culture of relating to it as a good resource to manage and not just ‘the enemy’, i think the general consensus on it would change somewhat.
Would pigs be interested?
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Michael Fundaro wrote:Yes, Foxtail grass grows well and looks great for a few weeks but those darn spike like seeds dig into everything from socks to jeans to cloth shoes and anything that is not leather or hard rubber and spreads everywhere and they poke and hurt everywhere you come in contact with them. Trying to get rid of them will be this years goal, or I will die trying. Either way I win because I wont have to deal with the pain of them stabbing me and scratching me everywhere from the knees down.
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