Terrestrial invasive species

Invasive species fact sheets

Most of the invasive species factsheets listed on this page are created from the booklet Minnesota invasive non-native terrestrial plants, an identification guide for resource managers.

Check the additional resources and herbicides table for more information.


Invasive terrestrial plants

Minnesota Invasive Non-native Terrestrial Plants - An Identification Guide for Resource Managers
(purchase from Minnesota's Bookstore) This link leads to an external site.

Minnesota's Forest Invaders: A guide to invasive species PDF icon  - SFI


Amur maple

Amur maple

Amur silver grass

Amur silver grass

 

Birdsfoot trefoil

Birdsfoot trefoil

Black locust

Black locust

 

Buckthorn

Buckthorn

Bull thistle

Bull thistle

 

Butter and eggs

Butter and eggs

Canada thistle

Canada thistle

 

Common tansy

Common tansy

Cow vetch and hairy vetch

Cow vetch and hairy vetch

 

Creeping Charlie

Creeping Charlie

Crown vetch or axseed

Crown vetch or axseed

 

Exotic honeysuckles

Exotic honeysuckles

Garlic mustard

Garlic mustard

 

Grecian foxglove

Grecian foxglove

Hoary alyssum

Hoary alyssum

 

Japanese barberry

Japanese barberry

Japanese knotweed

Japanese knotweed

 

Leafy spurge

Leafy spurge

Multiflora rose

Multiflora rose

 

Musk or nodding thistle

Musk or nodding thistle

Non-native phragmites

Non-native phragmites

 

Norway maple

Norway maple

Orange hawkweed

Orange hawkweed

 

Oriental bittersweet

Oriental bittersweet

Oxeye daisy

Oxeye daisy

 

Perennial sow thistle

Perennial sow thistle

Purple loosestrife

Purple loosestrife

 

Queen Ann's lace

Queen Ann's lace

Reed canary grass

Reed canary grass

 

Russian olive

Russian olive

Siberian elm

Siberian elm

 

Siberian peashrub

Siberian peashrub

Smooth brome grass

Smooth brome grass

 

Spotted knapweed

Spotted knapweed

White and yellow sweet clover

White and yellow sweet clover

 

Wild parsnip

Wild parsnip

Yellow iris

Yellow iris