Wednesday, June 26, 2013

We don't belong - Non-native plants in Mid-Michigan.

Sometimes it is easy to forget how many of the plants that we see every day do not belong in their habitat.  Below are a sampling of some of the non-native plant species that can be found naturalized in Mid-Michigan (and across much of North America).  How many of them can you identify?

Bittersweet Nightshade

Bull Thistle

Chicory

Cow Vetch

Harebell

Dame's Rocket

Spotted Knapweed

Teasel

Bird's Foot Trefoil (yellow) and Ox-eye Daisy (right)

Corn Cockle

Crown Vetch

Deptford Pink

Everlasting Pea

Motherwort

Musk Mallow

Stork's Bill

Bladder Campion

Bouncing Bet

Hoary Alyssum

Queen Anne's Lace (Wild Carrot)

White Campion

White Sweet Clover

Black Mustard

Butter-and-eggs

Common Mullein

Common St. John's Wort

Fistulous Goat's Beard

Showy Goat's Beard

Moth Mullein

Rough-fruited Cinquefoil

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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 16, 2019 at 5:05 PM

    Hey! Awesome! I know most of the plants in my yard but you named five I didn't know! They may be "immigrants" but they have been here long enough to earn their citizenship!

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    1. Mike.LeValleyJuly 16, 2019 at 5:54 PM

      Glad to help! I would agree with you for most of these plants, but spotted knapweed is a bad citizen and poisons the soil. A couple of the others such as dame's rocket and crown vetch crowd out the native plants and I would say to try to eliminate them is you have them.

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