Invasive Exotic Plants of Highlands County and Florida

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Click here for a link to Highlands County's Archbold Biological Station's Invasive plant pages, with lots of great information on bad plants in our area!

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A * next to the plant name indicates a plant that is of particular interest to Highlands County

Terrestrial plants

Common Name                   Scientific Name
Air Potato*                             Dioscorea bulbifera
Australian Pine*                    Casuarina spp.
Brazilian Pepper*                 Schinus terebinthifoius
Burma Reed/ Silk reed        Neyraudia reynaudiana
Carrot Wood                         Cupaniopsis anacardioides
Chinaberry                             Melia azedarach
Chinese Tallow*                    Sapium serbiferum
Chinese Wisteria                  Wisteria sinensis
Cogongrass*                         Imperata cylindrica
Coral Ardisia*                        Ardisia crenata
Downy Rose Myrtle               Rhodomyrtus tomentosa
Elephant grass                      Pennisetum purpureum
Half-flower                              Scaevola sericea
Japanese Honeysuckle        Lonicera japonica
Johnson Grass                      Sorghum halepense
Kudzu                                      Pueraria montana
Lead Tree                              Leucanea Leucocephala
Old World Climbing Fern*    Lygodium microphyllum
Para Grass                            Brachiaria mutica
Rosary Pea                            Arbus precatorious 
Spanish Gold                         Sesbania punicea
Torpedograss*                      Panicum repens
Tropical Soda Apple*           Solanum viarum
Umbrella Flat Sedge            Cyperius alternifolius
Wedelia                                 Wedelia trilobata
 

Aquatic plants

Common Name                    Scientific Name
Alligator Weed                       Alternanthera philoxeroides
Aquatic Nightshade               Solanum tampicense
Burhead Sedge*                    Scirpus cubensis
Carpet Grasses                     Axonopus spp.
Cattails*                                  Typha spp.
Common Waterweed            Egeria densa
Wild Taro*                              Colocasia esculenta
Eurasian Watermilfoil            Myriophyllum spicatum
Floating Hearts                      Nymphoides spp. 
Giant Reed/Giant Cane        Arundo donax
Giant Salvinia                        Salvinia molesta
Hydrilla*                                  Hydrilla verticillata
Hygrophila                              Hygrophila polysperma
Limnophila                             Limnophila sessiliflora
Melaleuca*                             Melaleuca quinquenervia
Parrot Feather                       Myriophyllum aquaticum
Rabbit Foot Grass                Polypogon monspeiensis
Silk Reed                               Neyraudia reynaudiana
Torpedograss*                      Panicum repens
Umbrella Flat Sedge            Cyperus alternifolius
Vasey Grass                         Paspallum urvillei
Water Fern                            Salvinia minima
Water Hyacinth*                   Eichhornia crassipes
Water Lettuce*                     Pistia stratiotes
Water Spinach                     Ipomoea aquatica
Wright's Nut Rush                Scleria lacustrus