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NC Invasive Plants

Species fact sheets and tools by region

Click on a region to learn more about the invasive plants found in that region
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List of invasive plant species in alphabetical order by common name

A

Air Potato
Alligatorweed
Asian Spiderwort
Asiatic Hawksbeard
Autumn Olive

B

Beach Vitex
Beefsteak Plant
Bicolor/Shrub Lespedeza
Bradford Pear
Brazilian Waterweed
Burning Bush
Bush Honeysuckle
Bushkiller
Butterfly Bush

C

Chinaberry
Chinese Lespedeza
Chinese Privet
Chinese Silvergrass
Chinese Tallow Tree
Chinese Wisteria
Chocolate Vine
Cogongrass
Common Chickweed
Common Reed
Creeping Water Primrose
Crested Floating Heart

D

Deep-rooted Sedge

E

English Ivy
Eurasian Watermilfoil

F

Fig Buttercup
Fragrant Honeysuckle

G

Garlic Mustard
Giant Hogweed
Giant Reed
Giant Salvinia
Golden Bamboo
Ground Ivy

H

Heavenly Bamboo
Hydrilla

J

Japanese Barberry
Japanese Honeysuckle
Japanese Knotweed
Japanese Privet
Japanese Spiraea
Japanese Stilt Grass
Japanese Wisteria
Johnson Grass

K

Kudzu

L

Leatherleaf Mahonia

M

Mile-A-Minute Vine
Mimosa
Multiflora Rose

o

Old World Climbing Fern
Oriental Bittersweet

P

Parrot feather
Porcelain Berry
Princess Tree
Puncturevine
Purple Loosestrife

R

Reed Canarygrass
Russian Olive

S

Sacred Bamboo
Salt Cedar
Small Carpetgrass
Sweet Autumn Virgin's Bower

T

Thorny Olive
Tree-of-Heaven
Trifoliate Orange
Tropical Soda Apple

w

Wavyleaf Basketgrass
Winter Creeper

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)
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  • NC Invasive Plants
    • Ailanthus Altissima (Tree-of-Heaven)
    • Elaeagnus umbellata (Autumn Olive)
    • Ficaria verna (Fig Buttercup)
    • Imperata cylindrica (Cogongrass)
    • Ligustrum sinense (Chinese Privet)
    • Ligustrum vulgare (Wild Privet)
    • Lonicera japonica (Japanese Honeysuckle)
    • Microstegium vimineum (Japanese Stilt Grass)
    • Nandina domestica
    • Nymphoides indica (water snowflake)
    • Paulownia tomentosa (Princess Tree)
    • Persicaria perfoliata (Mile-A-Minute Vine)
    • Pueraria montana (Kudzu)
    • Pyrus calleryana (Bradford Pear)
  • Annual Symposiums
    • 2022 Joint Symposium >
      • 2022 Speaker Presentations
    • 2021 Virtual Conference
    • 2019 Joint Symposium >
      • 2019 Presentations
    • 2018 Annual Symposium
    • 2017 Annual Symposium
    • 2016 Annual Symposium >
      • 2016 agenda
    • 2015 Annual Symposium >
      • 2015 Presentations
      • 2015 Agenda
  • Projects
    • Fig Buttercup Project
    • Eno River Hydrilla Project
    • Awareness Week
  • Awards
    • 2015 Student Competition Winners
    • 2015 EIA Award
    • 2014 EIA Award