"Plant This, Not That! Native Missouri Trees to Plant Instead of Invasive Callery/Bradford Pear" is an 11-poster set (title page + 10 species) inspired by the "Stop the Spread" campaign and designed by Missouri Invasive Plant Task Force. Available in the following...
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Awards given for fighting invasive plants, increasing native habitat
– by Nancy Bedan, on Columbia Audubon Society website At a ceremony on April 25, the City of Columbia recognized the Columbia Audubon Society (CAS) for its work in habitat restoration at the Columbia Audubon Nature Sanctuary (CANS) and for its community outreach and...
Missouri Noxious Weed Law – Not Right for Callery Pear
When the Missouri Department of Conservation posted about stopping the spread of Callery pear, there were several good questions and comments about legal ramifications for distributing invasive plants. We will address some of them here. “If Callery pear trees are a...
Plant This, Not That: 10 Native Trees to Plant in Place of Callery Pear
"My heart is broken." A woman dipped her head back and sighed as cars zoomed behind her and freshly cut tree trunks lay bucked up in scattered rows. A long row of Bradford pear trees, a cultivar of Callery pear (Pyrus calleryanna), had bloomed in her Kansas community...
Western Governors List 50 Worst Invasive Species
Invasive species pose an enormous environmental challenge to western states and territories. Western Governors have experienced first-hand how these invaders affect the region’s forests and rangelands, water, and agriculture. Left unchecked, invasive species...
What you need to know about Bradford pear trees to keep Missouri ecology healthy
When non-native plants cause significant ecological or environmental harm, we consider them "invasive." Invasive species regularly appear in Top-5 lists of the most significant threats to biodiversity, along with habitat loss, climate change and pollution. In the case...
Requiem for a Bradford Pear
originally published in Outdoor Living, Summer 2014 by Margo Farnsworth I had inherited my much longed for older sister’s bedroom. It was a garret-like space that opened into our dusty, but neatly arranged attic with oversized attic fan serving as both focal point...
Greenbelt Land Trust of Mid-Missouri Honeysuckle Work Day
Green Belt Land Trust wants to let you know about an opportunity to do some good work and help out a conservation easement landowner by clearing invasive honeysuckle on Saturday, November 11th, from 10AM to noon. They will be led by Fred Young, honeysuckle...
Spotlight on Emmenegger Nature Park invasive plant efforts
From Gwyn Wahlmann: Emmenegger Nature Park is a 110-acre wooded park in Kirkwood, Missouri, located on the Meramec River and endowed with unusual natural beauty and biological diversity. As an "adopt-a-park" subset of Kirkwood Parks Assistance Corps (KPAC), a small...
Collaborative Invasive Species Outreach Event at Missouri State Fair
This summer, MoIP participated in a new, multi-agency outreach event all about invasive species. This was a great event and we will make it an annual one!
Watch: Daniel Simberloff — “We Can Win the War Against Introduced Species!”
from IHMC Florida Institute for Human Machine Cognition 2005 Evening Lecture Series
Honeysuckle Hackathon 2017 and other St. Louis-Area invasive plant initiatives
"It's a leaf-out freakout," begins a St. Louis Post-Dispatch article posted March 13. As described in, "St. Louis residents beat back invasive honeysuckle as spring nears," organizations across the city are engaged in removal of this prolific and highly invasive...
Invasive Plant Species articles on the Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society
This topical issue of the Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society includes many articles pertinent to species that are invasive in Missouri, including a review article on Amur honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii). See more species-specific articles here on the MoIP website....
Rock Bridge Memorial State Park volunteer opportunities
Rock Bridge Memorial State Park is being threatened like never before by invasive plants and needs your help! If you haven’t considered doing invasive plant control volunteering before, the attachments will give you a good understanding of what’s involved. While we...
Decision to deregulate creeping bentgrass
Environmental groups blasted USDA’s Jan. 17 decision to deregulate a genetically engineered creeping bentgrass that has taken root in two Oregon counties. In a joint news release, the Center for Biological Diversity and Center for Food Safety sharply criticized USDA’s...
Whitetail Deer Helping Spread Invasive Species articles
Deer and Deer Hunting magazine recently published an article titled, "Hitching a Ride," which describes the way Whitetail Deer help spread certain invasive species. For more information, visit this Science Daily article or this Phys.org article.
‘NatiVeg’: NBCI RELEASES ONLINE TOOL TO AID NATIVE PLANT SELECTION
The National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative (NBCI) has taken another significant step in the recovery of native vegetation and habitats on the landscape across the 25 NBCI states with the release of a new decision-making tool, NatiVeg, NBCI Director Don McKenzie...
Research Shows Downy Brome Has Developed Fire-Survival Traits
LAWRENCE, Kansas – Research featured in the latest edition of the journal Invasive Plant Science and Management shows that the weed downy brome has developed fire-survival traits that are changing local growing conditions and making it impossible for native...
Invasive to Watch This Season
Round leaf (Oriental) bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus) is a perennial deciduous, climbing, woody vine that can grow to lengths of 60 feet and up to 4 inches in diameter. The striated bark is brown to dark brown. The smooth twigs can range from light gray to dark brown. The alternate, elliptical to rounded leaves are light green and 2-5 inches long. Small, inconspicuous, axillary, greenish white flowers bloom from May to early June. Small, round fruits are green when young; ripen to yellow; then split to reveal showy, scarlet berries that persist into winter. Celastrus orbiculatus is often found in old home sites, fields, and road edges. The fast-growing vines can cover, shade, and outcompete other vegetation, and even girdle and kill large trees.