English Ivy: this evergreen vine, thick shade-tolerant groundcover and climbs/chokes trees. Mosquito habitat.
Silverthorn/elaeagnus: tough, vine-like shrub. Brown thorns, leaves with silvery scaly undersides.
Bush Honeysuckle: forms dense thickets. multi-stemmed, upright, woody deciduous shrub, pink to red tubular flowers and orange-red berries.
Nandina/Heavenly Bamboo: aggressive ornamental. leaves start reddish, turn green then red again in fall. red berries are toxic to birds.
Mahonia/Oregon Grape: evergreen shrub, barberry family. yellow flowers around May. dark green, pointy leaves.
Chinese Privet: ornamental shrub, likes poor, disturbed soil. blue/black fruit persist through winter.
Glossy Privet: evergreen tree/hedge, leathery shiny leaves. small white flowers, black purple fruit.
Cherry Laurel: crushed leaves smell strongly of cherry coke. shrub/small tree. Native, but spreads aggressively and out-competes other plants.
Japanese Chaff Flower: perennial herb, 3-6ft in dense stands. mature 'bottle-brush' seeds catch onto pantlegs horribly. relative to amaranth.
Kudzu: the vine that ate the south. twining, aggressive, will take over fields and treetops. legume family. huge starchy tubers. purple flowers and flat, hairy seedpods.
Chinese Wisteria: rope-like woody vine, blooms early-spring with fragrant light pink/purple/white flowers (native wisteria blooms june/july)
Chinese Holly: hedge/small tree, unusual dark green rectangular leaves resembling bullhorns, with 3-5 points (native holly has 7-15+ points). red-dark orange-yellow berries.
Rose of Sharon: AKA Hibiscus or Korean Rose. Large, tropical flowers, deciduous shrub, erect, spreading habit with upright branches.
Multiflora Rose: dense, tall, thorny thickets with lots of light pink to white flowers. Small leaves are finely toothed.
Johnsongrass: Likes disturbed soil and is glyphosate-resistant. Johnsongrass is often mistaken with Barnyardgrass and/or Fall Panicum prior to seedhead formation. However, johnsongrass has a membranous ligule unlike that of fall panicum or barnyardgrass and johnsongrass seedlings do not have hairs on the lower leaf surface like those of fall panicum. Johnsongrass seedlings and mature plants also resemble Shattercane, but shattercane does not have rhizomes like johnsongrass.
Vining Honeysuckle: Young Japanese honeysuckle stems are green and finely-haired, while older stems are woody, hollow, and have brown bark that peels off in sheds. Leaves are three inches long, egg-shaped, hairy, and smooth-edged. Flowers are white, tinged with purple or pink before coming yellowish with age.
