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Terrestrial Invasive Species Fact Sheets

Plants

Bamboo forest or Bamboo leaves

Golden Bamboo

Reynoutria grows in nature

Japanese Knotweed 

Microstegium vimineum, commonly known as Japanese stiltgrass, packing grass, or Nepalese browntop

Japanese Stiltgrass

Kudzu

Kudzu

Mile-a-minute weed (Persicaria perfoliata) berries

Mile-a-minute

Phragmites australis

Phragmites

Purple loosestrife Lythrum salicaria inflorescence. Flower spike of plant in the family Lythraceae, associated with wet habitats

Purple Loosestrife

Mammals

Nutria with yellow teeth

Nutria 

Canadian Geese

Resident Canada Goose

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