Invasive vs Prolific || What's the difference?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ค. 2024
- In today's video, I discuss something that might ruffle some feathers. I get lots of comments where people claim a plant is invasive, yet I find out they live in its native range. A native cannot be invasive. If something is indigenous to where it is found, it can't be invasive. Invasive implies it invaded from somewhere foreign. Watch the entire video to see examples and what I'm trying to explain. I give different examples of plants that are invasive where I live, as well as a native vine that is often called invasive when it's not -- at least not here in the eastern United States! I know I'll probably get some angry comments, but let's keep it civil at least. Comment down below your favorite prolific native plant.
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I had this argument with someone who worked at a plant nursery. He kept saying that a plant was native, but invasive. I argued and told him a native plant can’t be invasive
Thank you for doing the good work!! T_T I hear it all the time, even from professionals in the native plant field!!! :O
This is the exact conversation I have w/my son the expert. Just because a native is doing well where it is planted does not equate to 'invasive'!!
Exactly. :) Thanks for watching and taking time to leave a comment!
Funny enough Virginia creeper is sold at a local native plant nursery. I have to say the Fall leaves are gorgeous.
Yes, as it should be, but it is funny, since it is one that pops in on its own for the most part. :) Mine are all volunteer - the virginia creepers!
Thank you for this clarification! I think it's important and I hear the term "invasive" misused all the time. I tend to appreciate the prolific plants giving me extras. 😁 Yarrow is quite prolific for me and I love it!
Well said! I, too, love the prolific plants. Even if I have to remove a few or transplant them around. :)
Prolific is a great description!
Thanks! I think Nancy Lawson, the author of "Wildscape," may have used that term before me! Or maybe she said vigorous, but I forget. :)
Jewelweed! One of my favorite super spreaders 😂
That's a great one!! :)
Yes to all of this! You just inspired me to plant Virginia Creeper against my back fence. My fav is Canada Goldenrod. I live in Michigan and it was one of the first volunteers to pop on our otherwise sterile lawn, when we first moved into our house a couple of years ago. Been a fan ever since! Also has that rhizomatous root system which I think is easy to pull, very manageable just...abundant!
That is awesome! I love goldenrod, too, and yes, it's nice when an abundant plant is easy to pull for the little edits we want to make in our garden beds. :) Happy growing!
Thanks for making these kinds of videos, it's important to use words correctly. I'm currently battling invasive English ivy, European Buckthorn, and European Lily of the Valley. My favorite prolific natives are Common Milkweed, Virginia Creeper and Riverbank Grape. I love how these 3 plants look. I'm training the vines to make some trellis arches at entry points. Some day I will show off my native garden, it's a 5 year plan.
Tell me about it! English Ivy is in my backyard and trying to creep to my front. It is a constant battle. As for the natives you mention, sounds like my kind of garden. I love entryways and interesting trellises with vines on them. I'm still struggling to ID the different grape vines and grape vine lookalikes that pop up in my garden!
That's funny, earlier today I was just making a point about how people might consider using exact language to say what they mean because words have meanings. Exact language is important!
Thank you for understanding and for the comment! :)
Thank you for making this video! I’m currently battling Chinese privet, Chinese bushclover, and Amur honeysuckle on my property and I’d take Virginia creeper over those any day. 😭 My favorite prolific native has to be maypops/purple passionflower. They’re popping up all over my yard and I don’t have the heart to tear them out, I just replant them along our fence because those flowers are breathtaking.
I love that vine, too, the purple passionflower. I enjoy seeing the gulf fritillaries lay eggs on it and their subsequent caterpillars munching the leaves. It's actually the butterfly in my logo! :)
I haven't had any luck with transplanting the passionflower that pops up in my yard. Is there a secret for getting it to survive some slight relocating?
@@MrEunderwood I usually mix some compost in the planting hole & keep it very moist for a couple of weeks, and the bigger the chunk of runner root the better. Smaller root pieces are less likely to survive. I hope this helps!
purple dead nettle love it makes a great tea
Purple Dead Nettle is not native where I live but maybe it’s native in your country? I asked what folks’ favorite prolific native plants were.
Sticky willy is so prolific. I tolerate it and virginia creeper in their space
I love sticky willy. It's a fun one. I like to rip tiny pieces of it off and stick it to my husbands shirt as a little prank. We laugh together in the garden about it. Such a cool velcro like plant!
Spiderwort
Oh I love spiderwort! I've only had mine about a year or year and a half, so mine haven't spread yet. I'm excited for them to do so. :)
I know someone who is convinced that Mullen isn’t invasive. Their line of thought is that it doesn’t form monocultures and isn’t that harmful to the environment. It’s from a foreign ecosystem, reproducing outside of cultivation, and has a considerable biomass in the United States. I guess a lot of people think invasive just means aggressive.
You're right when you say a lot of people think the word "invasive" just means "aggressive." That's why I made the video. I'm trying to put a video out there that hopefully explains the difference in the two words.
According to Bonap, it looks like Mullien is invasive in Colorado and South Dakota for sure. See the pink without any green: bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Verbascum%20thapsus.png --- Bonap is not perfect, though, and the blue you see means exotic (but pink is noxious according to this site). I wouldn't be surprised if over time it does enter an invasive list in the other states, too. Some plants, in my opinion, are just a matter of time before they go on the invasive list. Plus, different websites may give you different info. But the top invasive plants in an area are typically easy to find on google. The TN Invasive Plant Council site has a great list for my state of Tennessee: www.tnipc.org/invasive-plants/
The reason I say Bonap is not perfect, is sometimes you'll see them list a native as pink / noxious. You can tell by the green nearby in other states on the map. If something, for example, is green (native) to Kentucky, but pink (noxious) in Tennessee, I just don't buy that. I think that's a flaw on the site. If it is native to every state surrounding it, but not that state in the middle? I just don't see how that one state in the middle would be noxious or invasive. Maybe Bonap is calling some natives noxious but doesn't mean invasive? I don't know, but that's why I say to cross-reference. Basically, BONAP is great for 80% of times you want to figure out if something is native, but other sites are better to find out if something is invasive. ;)
@@awildapproach Yeah, I’m in Kentucky. I see them everywhere along the roads growing through gravel alongside red cedars. I think that any plant reproducing far away from its native range and competing with native species should be considered invasive. If it was there before or extended its range over a shorter distance than it would be a more nuanced problem. With Mullein being from across a natural barrier like an ocean, I can’t think of it as other than an invasive when I see it out of cultivation here.
@@Westbound100 I agree with you there! If something is not native and it’s outcompeting our natives, it should be put on an invasive list!
Sunshine mimosa and bidens alba 😊
I had to look those two up. Those look pretty! Seems they are both native to Florida for sure, as well as some other southern states. :) Happy Gardening!
I wish some of the Russian audience watched you, so they could understand what invasive when it comes to Ukraine means ❤
Satanic ideologies are invasive, turning brothers against brothers. It's a good thing God's Son has returned.
Specifically the leadership at the top. Many citizens don't agree with what their leaders do. It's sad when highly narcissistic folks who lack empathy gain power.