The Electronic Field Guide to the Invasive Plants of Nantucket
Below are lists of the species featured in the Invasive Plants of Nantucket, organized alphabetically by common and scientific names.
Click on a name to view more information about that species.
by Common Name by Scientific Name
Autumn Olive
Bittersweet Nightshade
Black Locust
Black Swallow-wort; Dog-strangle Vine
Black-eyed Susan
Border Privet
Bull Thistle
Burning Bush
Butter-and -eggs
California Privet
Cat's Ear
Celandine
Chicory
Colt's-foot
Common Mullein
Common St. John's Wort
Creeping Buttercup
Creeping Jennie
Crown Vetch
Cypress Spurge
Daffodil
Dame's Rocket
Daylily
English Ivy
English Plantain
Fanwort
Five-leaf Akebia
Garlic Mustard
Giant Reed
Gill-over-the -ground
Glossy Buckthorn
Goutweed
Hairy Willow-herb
Horned Poppy
Japanese Barberry
Japanese Black Pine
Japanese Honeysuckle
Japanese Knotweed
Japanese Stilt Grass
Jimsonweed
Lance leaf Coreopsis
Leafy Spurge
Lesser Celandine
Money Plant
Morrows Honeysuckle
Multiflora Rose
Norway Maple
Oriental Bittersweet
Oxeye Daisy
Periwinkle
Pitch Pine
Porcelainberry
Purple Loosestrife
Queen Anne's Lace
Russian Olive
Saltspray Rose
Scotch Broom
Sericea Bush-clover; Chinese Bush-clover
Sheep Sorrel
Spotted Knapweed
Stork's Bill
Sycamore Maple
Tall Pepperweed
Tree-of-heaven
True Forget-me-not
Velvet grass
White Poplar
Yarrow
Yellow Flag
Acer platanoides
Acer pseudoplatanus
Achillea millefolium
Aegopodium podagraria
Ailanthus altissima
Akebia quinata
Alliaria petiolata
Ampelopsis brevipedunculata
Berberis thunbergii
Cabomba caroliniana
Celastrus orbiculatus
Centaurea maculosa (bierbersteinii)
Chelidonium majus
Chrysanthemum leucanthemum
Cichorium intybus
Cirsium vulgare
Coreopsis lanceolata
Coronilla varia
Cynanchum louiseae
Cytisus scoparius
Datura stramonium
Daucus carota
Elaeagnus angustifolium
Elaeagnus umbellata
Epilobium hirsutum
Erodium cicutarium
Euonymus alatus
Euphorbia cyparissias
Euphorbia esula
Glaucium flavum
Glechoma hederacea
Hedra helix
Hemerocallis fulva
Hesperis matronalis
Holcus lanatus
Hypericum perforatum
Hypochoeris radicata
Iris psuedocorus
Lepiduim latifolium
Lespedeza cuneata
Ligustrum obtusifolium
Ligustrum ovalifolium
Linaria vulgaris
Lonicera japonica
Lonicera morrowii
Lunaria annua
Lysimachia nummularia
Lythrum salicaria
Microstegium vimineum
Myosotis scorpioides
Narcissus sp.
Phragmites australis
Pinus rigida
Pinus thunbergiana
Plantago lanceolata
Polygonum cuspidatum
Populus alba
Ranunculus ficaria
Ranunculus repens
Rhamnus frangula
Robinia pseudoacacia
Rosa multiflora
Rosa rugosa
Rudbeckia hirta var. pulcherrima
Rumex acetosella
Solanum dulcamara
Tussilago farfara
Verbascum thapsus
Vinca minor