NC Invasive Plants - NC INVASIVE PLANT COUNCIL

NC INVASIVE PLANT COUNCIL

Species fact sheets and tools by region

Click on a region to learn more about the invasive plants found in that region

List of invasive plant species in alphabetical order by common name

A

Asian Spiderwort

Asiatic Hawksbeard

B

Beefsteak Plant

Bicolor/Shrub Lespedeza

Brazilian Waterweed

Bush Honeysuckle

C

Chinese Lespedeza

Chinese Silvergrass

Chinese Tallow Tree

Chinese Wisteria

Common Chickweed

Creeping Water Primrose

Crested Floating Heart

D

Deep-rooted Sedge

E

Eurasian Watermilfoil

F

Fragrant Honeysuckle

G

H

Heavenly Bamboo

J

Japanese Barberry

Japanese Honeysuckle

Japanese Knotweed

Japanese Privet

Japanese Spiraea

Japanese Stilt Grass

Japanese Wisteria

K

L

Leatherleaf Mahonia

M

Mile-A-Minute Vine

Multiflora Rose

o

Old World Climbing Fern

Oriental Bittersweet

P

Porcelain Berry

Purple Loosestrife

R

Reed Canarygrass

S

Small Carpetgrass

Sweet Autumn Virgin's Bower

T

Trifoliate Orange

Tropical Soda Apple

w

Wavyleaf Basketgrass

Y

Yellowflag Iris

Yellow Floating Heart

List of invasive plant species in alphabetical order by scientific name

A

Ailanthus altissima (Tree-of-Heaven)

Akebia quinata (Chocolate Vine)

Albizia julibrissin (Mimosa)

Alliaria petiolata (Garlic Mustard)

Alternanthera philoxeroides (Alligatorweed)

Ampelopsis brevipedunculata (Porcelain Berry)

Arthraxon hispidus (Small Carpetgrass)

Arundo donax (Giant Reed)

B

Berberis (Mahonia) bealei (Leatherleaf Mahonia)

Berberis thunbergii (Japanese Barberry)

Buddleja davidii (Butterfly bush)

C

Cayratia japonica (Bushkiller)

Celastrus orbiculatus (Oriental Bittersweet)

Clematis terniflora (Sweet Autumn Virgin's Bower)

Cyperus entrerianus (Deep-rooted Sedge)

D

Dioscorea bulbifera ( Air Potato)

E

Egeria densa (Brazilian Waterweed)

Elaeagnus angustifolia (Russian Olive)

Elaeagnus pungens (Thorny Olive)

Elaeagnus umbellata (Autumn Olive)

Euonymus alata (Burning Bush)

Euonymus fortunei var. radicans (Winter Creeper)

F

Ficaria verna ( Fig Buttercup)

G

Glechoma hederacea (Ground Ivy)

H

Hedera helix (English Ivy)

Heracleum mantegazzianum (Giant Hogweed)

Hydrilla verticillata (Hydrilla)

I

Imperata cylindrica (Cogongrass)

Iris pseudacorus (Yellow Flag Iris)

L

Lespedeza bicolor (Bicolor/Shrub Lespedeza)

Lespedeza cuneata (Chinese Lespedeza)

Ligustrum japonicum (Japanese Privet)

Ligustrum sinense (Chinese Privet)

Lonicera fragrantissima (Fragrant Honeysuckle)

Lonicera japonica (Japanese Honeysuckle)

Lonicera mackii (Bush Honeysuckle)

Ludwigia hexapetala (Creeping Water Primrose)

Lygodium microphyllum (Old World Climbing Fern)

Lythrum salicaria (Purple Loosestrife)

M

Melia azedarach (Chinaberry)

Microstegium vimineum (Japanese Stilt Grass)

Murdannia keisak (Asian Spiderwort)

Miscanthus sinensis (Chinese Silvergrass)

Myriophyllum aquaticum (Parrot feather)

Myriophyllum spicatum (Eurasian Watermilfoil)

N

Nandina domestica (Sacred Bamboo)

Nymphoides cristata (Crested Floating Heart)

Nymphoides peltata (Yellow Floating Heart)

O

Oplismenus hirtellus ssp. undulatifolius (Wavyleaf Basketgrass)

P

Paulownia tomentosa (Princess Tree)

Perilla frutescens (Beefsteak Plant)

Persicaria perfoliata (Mile-A-Minute Vine)

Phalaris arundinacea (Reed Canarygrass)

Phragmites australis (Common Reed)

Phyllostachys aurea (Golden Bamboo)

Poncirus trifoliata (Trifoliate Orange)

Pueraria montana (Kudzu)

Pyrus calleryana (Bradford Pear)

R

Reynoutria japonica (Japanese Knotweed)

Rosa multiflora (Multiflora Rose)

S

Salvinia molesta (Giant Salvinia)

Solanum viarum (Tropical Soda Apple)

Sorghum halepense (Johnson Grass)

Spiraea japonica var. fortunei (Japanese Spiraea)

Stellaria media (Common Chickweed)

T

Tamarix ramosissima (Salt Cedar)

Triadica sebifera (Chinese Tallow Tree)

Tribulus terrestris (Puncturevine)

V

Vitex rotundifolia (Beach Vitex)

W

Wisteria floribunda (Japanese Wisteria)

Wisteria sinensis (Chinese Wisteria)

Y

Youngia japonica ( Asiatic Hawksbeard)