Comments on: NOT Wanted: Have You Seen This Plant?

By: Marilyn

Marilyn — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:17:48 +0000

Garlic Mustard, Alliaria Petiolata, Diane is this the same plant that can make your sking blister? No I ma not speaking about posion ivey and such. They ran a story locally last year about a weed and to be careful of it if it touched your skin … I thought it sounded like this?? BUT then again I could be out in that old ballfield once again! hahaha!

And all the time I thought that white butterfly was a moth!

By: ccinnkpr

ccinnkpr — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:39:24 +0000

Good grief, I have this stuff everywhere. I do yank it out, but I haven’t been especially choosy about where I put it. I’ll definitely be more careful about it from now on! Thanks for the great information.

By: Bridget

Bridget — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:05:52 +0000

Thanks for another great article!

By: Krista

Krista — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:02:41 +0000

Reminds me of another sort of invasion and why I never drink merlot, cabernet or chardonnay… these vines will grow anywhere and everywhere and have mass produced wines have ruined the pallets of many.

Here in Italy, ironically, it is the Americans that are some of the invading species. Brine Shrimp -think fish food/sea monkeys and Grey Squirrels!

Another one of my homes, California – San Diego specifically, I remember the eucalyptus trees dying in vast numbers because of some invading parasite that sucked the life out of them. In order to save the trees… a predator had to be introduced – another non native species… a wasp from the outback of Australia where the trees came from to begin with!

By: Ratty

Ratty — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:42:50 +0000

Wow, I don’t usually think of plants like this. I’ll be looking for these on my travels. We have a similar thing happening in our Detroit River. It’s zebra mussels. They came over with Russian ships, and they are choking out so many other things. They’re even polluting our water supply.