Invasive Plants

Forest Invasive Species Guide

The Forest Invasive Species Guide is published in cooperation with the Iowa DNR and USDA Forest Service as part of the Healthy Forests in the Cedar Iowa Corridor Landscape Scale Restoration grant. The pocket guide highlights 19 invasive trees, shrubs, and plants. It includes quick ID photos and text as well as common management techniques for controlling each species.

Invasive Plant Species

Yellow Starthistle Cheatgrass Bull Thistle Common Burdock Honeysuckle Oriental Bittersweet Salt Cedar Russian Olive Giant Hogweed Musk Thistle Siberian Elm White Mulberry Common Teasel

Autumn Olive Common Buckthorn Canada Thistle Dame's Rocket Kudzu Japanese Barberry Wild Parsnip Spotted Knapweed Japanese Knotweed Privets Tree of Heaven Velvet Leaf Knapweed

Exotic Bush Honeysuckle Crown Vetch Chinese Elm Garlic Mustard Multiflora Rose Queen Anne's Lace Purple Loosestrife Winged Burning Bush Leafy Spurge Reed Canary Grass Winged Euonymus Sericea Lespedeza