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Invasive Species
NEW!
AZ Native Plant Society is pleased to announce the release of the:
Grow Native: don't plant a pest
brochure (click on the image at right)
and website. Click here to visit!
Invasive Species Updates (recent articles in The Plant Press):
The Sonoran Desert Weedwackers,
by Barb Skye Siegel
The Arizona Noxious Weed Program
Serves the Citizens, by Cindy Salo
Learn more about the origins of buffelgrass and fountaingrass and how to identify them by viewing this PowerPoint presentation: The War on Invasive Bunch Grasses: How the Sonoran Desert Weedwackers are waging the battle on the enemy. (3.7 Mb)
Download a brochure on buffelgrass that explains why it needs to be removed from neighborhoods.
Fountain grass (Pennisetum setaceum) and buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) are spreading through the Sonoran Desert and threatening our distinctive native Sonoran Desert plants. ANPS has prepared two flyers on invasive nonnative species. PDF versions of these flyers can be downloaded or viewed in your browser.
Fountaingrass (Pennisetum
setaceum)
Buffelgrass (Pennisteum
ciliare) |
Follow these links for more information about invasive species.
- Backyard
Ponds and Exotic Pests. Bullfrogs and crayfish threaten Arizona's
streams and wetlands
- Arizona Department of Agriculture: Noxious Weed List
- Arizona AgNIC: Rangeland Management
- Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum information: Invaders Program
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health and Inspection Service: Noxious Weeds Home Page
- National Biological Information Infrastructure: Invasive Species
- New England Wild Flower Society: Sources of Invasive Plant Information
- U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service: Invasive Species Program
- Pima County Exotic Species: Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan information
- Plant Conservation Alliance: Weeds Gone Wild
- U.S. Geological Survey Southwest Exotic Plant Mapping Program / Southwest Exotic Plant Information Clearinghouse , Arizona Wildlands Invasive Plants, Alien Plants Ranking System
- Invasive Species Research
- The Nature Conservancy: Wildland Invasive Species Program
- Plant Conservation Alliance Plant Conservation Alliance Website Plant Lists of Alien Plant Invaders
- The Center for Invasive Plant Management represents a coalition of agencies, organizations, and individuals interested in managing invasive plants and maintaining healthy ecosystems in western North America.