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Your invasive species are another place's native
don't shit on them so much; you make people feel the species are useless everywhere
#oh me? my posts?#plant native#native plants#invasiveplants#invasive species#native species#anti lawn#nature conservation
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Fridays are Buflegrass days. I meet up with a group and work for a few hours in the Gates Pass area. Worked today near the”Mega Patch” which is a huge near hopeless area of Buflegrass. Decided to just clear out one small area around a Saguaro. At least if the patch catches fire this Saguaro could survive 🌵😁
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/11/venezuela-loggerhead-sea-turtle-endangered/
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10 Most Invasive Species on the Earth
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Scenes From My Walk - Russian Thistle - when dried out becomes Tumbleweed #ScenesFromMyWalk #RussianThistle #Tumbleweed #InvasivePlants #HighDesertVegetation (at Agua Fria, New Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjuBkumNxBb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Time for my favorite invasive species, Ampelopsis glandulosa, aka the porcelain berry, to show its gorgeous colors again. For something that gets colorful in autumn it has a very springy palette. #fall #autumn #porcelainberry #greenery #plants #vines #creepers #invasiveplants #plantsofinstagram #plantstagram #colorful #berries #foliage https://www.instagram.com/p/CjDiccguRlt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Looking forward to digging into this … #plants #dye #ink #invasiveplants https://www.instagram.com/p/ChskF5HOgTG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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WTH! I had to do a double-take when I saw this kudzu vine as I was rushing around doing errands yesterday. It is just a few blocks from my house and community garden. Shudder! #gardendc #dtss #silverspring #kudzu #kudzuvine #invsp #invasiveplants #invasive #picoftheday #nofilter (at Silver Spring, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgo0gvRurE6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Looking for an indoor-outdoor green friend? The Ice Plant (Carpobrotus edulis) may be the next houseplant to add to your wish list, but take care in keeping it contained to your home and garden.
Ice Plants make attractive angular succulent leaves and have trailing growth along with shimmery yellow or pale pink flowers in spring. The succulent leaves have a “glittery” appearance due to their texture. As potted plants, they need plenty of sun and can be kept outside in the UK unless there is frost. They are frost tender and must be protected or moved inside in winter.
Native to South Africa, the Ice Plant has evolved to thrive in coastal environments with salty spray, steep cliffs, and nutrient-poor sandy soil. Ice Plants can easily outcompete native coastal plant species and become invasive in places like California, USA, the Mediterranean, Australian coasts, and Cornwall, UK. When Ice Plants take over an area, they make the soil more acidic - which is favourable to Ice Plants while making it more difficult for other plants to grow.
How did this frost tender plant become invasive in the UK though? Ice Plants have taken over specific areas of Cornwall, where the cliff and dune environments rarely have frost due to the warm Gulf Stream ocean current. They are escapees from gardens where Ice Plants are used as ground cover, and in the mid 20th century it was introduced to slow dune erosion. Some areas, like the scenic Lizard Point in Cornwall, are carpeted in Ice Plants and many visitors assume they are a native species. Although the climate is not warm enough for their fruits to ripen, the plant spreads prodigiously via fragmentation (new plants growing from broken off pieces). Therefore, there is probably low genetic diversity among the Ice Plant populations in Cornwall, which may make them more vulnerable to pests and diseases in the long run.
The Ice Plant can be a “nice plant” as long as you keep it strictly in captivity!
#katia_plantscientist#iceplant#aizoaceae#carpobrotus#carpobrotusedulis#succulent#houseplants#invasiveplants#cornwall#coastalplants#trailingplants#flowers#southafricanplants#invasivespecies#plantbiology#botany#plants#katia plant scientist#plant science#katia hougaard#plant biology#houseplant#indoor plants
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We are at the beach today and came across this and very spiky plant that was everywhere. It is called Common Gorse. Although it is an invasive species it is native to this area in Ireland and will only grow in highly acidic soils. It’s so beautiful! 🏝 🏖 🌼 🥼 #commongorse #wildflowers #bythebeach #beachflowers #invasiveplants #invasiveflowers #moodforfloral #flowers #flowerstagram #flowersofinstagram #flowerslovers #flowersoftheday #flowersmakemehappy #flowersphotography #flowerstyle #flowerslover #flowerseverywhere #flowershot #flowersinstagram #flowersbouquet #beautifulwildflowers https://www.instagram.com/p/CdjULuwqWe9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Black Friday chopping! Invasive species removal in my backyard. #NativePlants #InvasivePlants #HomegrownNationalPark #InvasiveSpeciesRemoval #BlackFriday #BlackFridayShopping #ReciprocatingSaw #sawzall
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As always, make sure to practice foraging safety and don’t eat unless you’re 100% certain you identified the plant correctly.
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Field journal 📔
ID: Crotalaria pallida
Common name: Streaked rattlepod, smooth rattlebox
🚨 Invasive
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While we do have a few native Crotalaria species in Florida, this isn’t one of them. It seems that this species was introduced to the southeast US as a green manure crop, which led me down a research rabbit hole.
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I thought manure always referred to animal poop, but it turns out there are three types of manure. I knew about brown manure (poop), and I know what compost is (though I didn’t know it was technically classified as manure). But with no real gardening or farming background, the concept of green manure was completely new to me.
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Green manure refers to plants that are grown specifically to be plowed back into the soil while they’re still alive. Usually legumes (such as C. pallida) are used, because they’re nitrogen fixers, which means that they will release nitrogen to fertilize the soil.
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Pretty cool plant science, but if native legumes had been used, then we wouldn’t be having a problem with this particular species competing with the plants that were here first.
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#nature #invasiveplants #flowers #farming #agriculture #botany #plants #wildflowers
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Word of the Week
One of our classes learned about this one during fieldwork last week.
Invasive Species: a species that has been introduced to an area and that causes significant economic, social, and/or ecological impacts once established.
#invasivespecies #invasiveplants #sciencewords #wordoftheweek
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Beautiful day on the East side yesterday even with intermittent showers, I was trying to zoom in on a couple of water falls by Mt. Waialeale on the drive home yesterday but they don’t show very well The grove of trees in the foreground are all Albizia trees which are pervasive and invasive trees on here on Kaua’i - they are pretty enough to look at it but the branches are very brittle and problematic especially along roadways during windstorms plus they spread and grow like weeds #waterfall #waterfalls #wailua #eastside #gardenisland #thegardenisland #kauai #kauaihawaii #kauaiswhy #kauailove #hawaii #cloudscape #rainyday #nature #landscape #country #countrylife #islandlife #luckywelivekauai #luckywelivehawaii #february #shotoniphone #offthebeatenpath #shotoniphone #lovewhereyoulive #invasiveplants (at Wailua Homesteads) https://www.instagram.com/p/Coknq41PMFJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Boat Bath - Alton Bay, New Hampshire This funny looking box on wheels is set up next to the Alton Bay boat ramp to encourage boaters to wash their boat as they leave for the summer. New Hampshire has a problem with milfoil, a non native species of algae the can choke smaller lakes and pond into becoming swamps. Clean boats prevent the transfer of milfoil from being introduced into more pristine environments. Other lake boat ramps have "lake hosts" stationed who are volunteers that inspect boats as they enter or leave a waterway. They point out where milfoil might be hiding on the boat and trailer. In addition they might help the boat owner clean off their boat before they leave. New Hampshire also has a team of volunteer divers that actually "vacuum" lake beds where patches of milfoil are known to exist. The clean boat program is simply a suggestion, not a requirement. Most responsible boat owners usually welcome these measures and are happy to help keep our ponds and lakes clean. . . . #milfoil #milfoilremoval #milfoilcrew #invasivespecies #invasive #invasivealgae #invasiveplants #invasivespeciesremoval #invasiveweeds #invasivespeciescontrol #cleanboat #cleanboats #cleanboatscleanwaters #altonbay #altonbaynh #lakewinnipesaukee #newhampshire #nh #newengland #processed (at Alton Bay Seaplane Base) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUHP2OKAd4Z/?utm_medium=tumblr
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