Transcript ID Guide - Measuring Conservation Success

Exotic Invasive Vegetation
ID Guide
Table of Contents
• Grass
– Japanese stilt grass (Microstegium Vimineum)
• Vines
– Multiflora rose (Rosa Multiflora)
– English ivy (Hedera helix)
– Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica)
– Kudzu (Pueria montana)
• Shrubs
– Autumn olive (Elaeagnus umbellata)
– Japanese privet (Ligustrum japonica)
• Trees
– Paulownia (Paulownia tomentosa)
– Callery pear (Pyrus calleryana)
MIVI
Japanese stilt grass
Scientific: Microstegium vimineum
Common:
• Grass stem is ½-3.5 ft
tall
• Alternate leaf
arrangement
• Leaf is pale green
with off-center middle
vein
ROMU
Multiflora rose
Scientific: Rosa multiflora
Common:
• Alternate leaf
arrangements (one leaf
with 5 leaflets in picture)
• 5-11 leaflets per leaf
• Leaf edges serrated
• White flowers with 5
petals bloom in early
summer
• Thorn-like prickles on
stems
• Long arching stems, can
be vine-like
HEHE
English ivy
Scientific: Hedera helix
Common:
• Evergreen vine
• Leaves are darkgreen with light green
veins (palmate
arrangement)
• Leaf shape is lobed
with heart-shaped
base
LOJA
Japanese honeysuckle
Scientific: Lonicera japonica
Common:
• Evergreen/Semievergreen vine
• Opposite leaf
arrangement
• Leaves are 1-2.5
inches long
• Leaf and stem is
pubescent
PUMO
Kudzu
Scientific: Pueria montana
Common:
• Deciduous vine
• Leaves are alternate,
compound with
usually 3 leaflets
• Leaflets are usually
lobed
• Leaves and stems are
pubescent
ELUM
Autumn olive
Scientific: Elaeagnus umbellata
Common:
• Deciduous shrub
• 3-20ft in height
• Alternate leaf
arrangement
• Leaf has silvery,
dotted underside
• Leaf edges are
usually wavy
LIJA
Japanese privet
Scientific: Ligustrum japonica
Common:
• Evergreen
• Opposite leaf arrangement
• Leaves are leathery, oval with
rounded base.
• Leaf tip is tapering often with a
sharp tip.
• Leaves are two to four inches
long and 1 to 2 inches wide.
• Leaf margins entire and often
yellowish rimmed.
• Twigs hairless and pale green
becoming brownish to reddish
tinged.
PATO
Paulownia
Scientific: Paulownia tomentosa
Common:
• Deciduous tree up to
60 ft tall
• Leaves are opposite,
6in-1ft long
• Leaves are heart
shaped and
pubescent on
underside
PYCA
Callery pear
Scientific: Pyrus calleryana
Common:
• Deciduous tree up to
40 ft tall
• Leaves are alternate,
2-3 inches long
• Leaves are waxy with
a wavy, slightlytoothed margins
• The University of Georgia, USDA APHIS PPQ and USDA Forest
Service Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team. (2003).
Invasive Plants of the Eastern United States: Identification and
Control. Retrieved Apr., 2009, from
http://dnr.state.il.us/Stewardship/cd/index.html
• The University of Georgia Center for Invasive Species and
Ecosystem Health. (2009). Invasive.org: Invasive and Exotic
Species to North America. Retrieved Apr., 2009, from
http://www.invasive.org/