Just got a new phone and was going through photos as I was transferring stuff and had this photo of an in progress woven invasive stick trellis I made for the entrance to a neighbors former lawn we turned into a garden. Sad they ended up moving before this was done

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  • out of curiosity, what resources do you use to identify what species are and aren’t invasive? I’ve been having trouble with that.

    the trellis looks cool!

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    I highly recommend checking out BONAP if you live in North America (specifically the US) and specifically their species range maps: https://bonap.net/Napa/Genus/Traditional/County This link is their page giving genus names, simply click and find your species then you can view a county by county map showing species ranges. I generally use it to help remind me which native species are native where but it can just as easily be used to see where invasive species are roughly. Your state DNR or conservation/recreation websites should also list noxious and invasive species.

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    Each state puts out a list, but also it’s very easy to intuit if you just spend enough time out in wild spaces. If you find some forest or woods or grasslands or “wild” spaces and there’s a lot of a nonnative species there no one planted, it’s invasive. 90% of the understory around me is Japanese honeysuckle, don’t really need anything official to know that’s bad lol

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    out of curiosity, what resources do you use to identify what species are and aren’t invasive? I’ve been having trouble with that.

    i’m asking because in texas, i was taught growing up that our ashe juniper trees (we incorrectly call them cedars lol) that are everywhere are invasive. Only to find out upon doing some research that conservationists have been trying to convince people how important they are to the ecosystem for the last 50+ years.

    I’ve been using the Seek app recently to catalogue the species i find in the woods, and it labels everything either native, introduced, or Invasive, though i haven’t found any invasives yet. Maybe the hill country has very few since there’s so much drought here.

    The only thing i’ve heard of being invasive here other than cedars is Bamboo, which that one makes sense tbh.

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  • Midwest US, Ohio

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