In this video you will learn about invasive plant ecology and how to easily identify common invasive species. Note you only need to watch part of this video (start time: 3:55 / end time: 46:34)

• What is an invasive?
• Most non-native species are NOT invasive
• How do invasive plants get here>
• How do they spread?
• Why are they successful?
• What harm do invasive plants do?
• What can we do about invasive plants?
  • Identification
    • Asiantic (Oriental) Bittersweet - Celastrus orbiculatus
    • Autumn Olive - Eleagnus umbellata
    • Black Swallowwort & Pale Swallowwort - Cyanchum louiseae & C. rossicum
    • Burning Bush (Winged Euonymus) - Euonymous alatus
    • Common buckthorn - Rhamnus cathartica
    • Common Reed - Phragmites australis
    • Garlic Mustard -  Alliaria petiolata
    • Glossty False Buckthorn - Frangula alnus 
    • Japanese Barberry - Barberis thunbergii
    • Japanese Knotweed - Fallopia japonica
    • Multiflora rose - Rosa multiflora
    • Ornamental jewelweed / Himalayan balsam - Impatiens glandulifera
    • Purple loosestrife - Lythrum salicaria
    • Shrubby honeysuckles - Lonicera morrowii and others
    • Tree-of-Heaven - Ailanthis altissima
    • Yellow Iris - Iris pseudacorus