Resources on the Web about Invasive Plants

Background Information

Randall, JM, and J Marinelli (eds) Invasive Plants: Weeds of the Global Garden, Brooklyn Botanical Garden, Brooklyn, 1996. http://www.gardenweb.co m/bbg/plant.html

The Nature Conservancy Alien Invaders: America’s Least Wanted, http://consci.tnc.org/li brary/pubs/dd/ 1996

U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment (1993) Harmful Non-indigenous Species in the United States, OTA-F-565 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, September, 1993) http://www.wws.princeton.edu /~ota/

Weed Science Discipline Group (International): http://www.ag ric.wa.gov.au/progserv/plants/weeds/

Invited Speakers for Biological Invasions! The Quiet Global Change http://seagrant.orst.edu/colloquium/links.ht ml

Native Plant Conservation Initiative, Exotic Plant Working Group, http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien

Noxious Weeds and Exotic and Invasive Plant Management Resources – US Fish and Wildlife Service h ttp://refuges.fws.gov/NWRSFiles/InternetResources/Weeds.html

Invasive Plants Factbook http://www.denix.osd.mil/denix/Public/ES-Programs/Cons ervation/Invasive/intro.html

Biodiversity: "Plant diversity slipping away, report warns" 9/21/99 Environmental News Network, http://www.enn.com/enn-news-archive/1999/09/092199/preport_5708.asp

Plant Lists

Campbell, Faith (1999) “Plants that hog the garden: invasive plants in the United States” Fine Gardening online edition http:/ /www.taunton.com/fg/features/plants/invasive/1.htm

National PLANTS Database provides standardized plant names and other plant attribute information http://plants.usda.gov/plants

Noxious Weeds of North America: http://dog wood.itc.nrcs.usda.gov:90/weeds/index.html

Invaders Database: http://invader.dbs.umt.edu/ - includes all current noxious weeds for all 50 states as well as presence by county for MT, OR, WA, ID, WY

Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants, University of Florida http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/welcome.htmlwith photographs and lists

National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) Invasives Species Home Page http://www.nbii.gov/invasive/lists, info on Kudzu(Pueraria lobata), Leafy Spurge (Euphorbia esula), Melaleuca(Melaleuca quinquenervia), Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), Saltcedar (Tamarix ramosissima)

Regional Sources

Tennessee Exotic Pest Plant Council http://www.webriver.com/tn-epp c/

California Exotic Pest Plant Council http://www.caleppc.org/

Hawaii Exotic Pest Plant Council Discussion List http://www.tile.net/li stserv/heppcl.html

Northwest Exotic Pest Plant Council http://www.wnps.org/eppclet.ht ml

Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council www.fleppc.org

New England Wild Flower Society “Invaders” 2(3), 1998. http://www.newfs.org /invasive/invasive.htm

Invaders Database: http://invader.dbs.umt.edu/

Invasive Alien Plant Cooperative Project (VA): http://www,state.va .us/~dcr/dnh/invproj.htm

Policy

Senate Bill 910 Noxious Weed Coordination and Plant Protection Act

House Bill 1504 Plant Protection Act www.thomas.gov

US Code: http://uscode.house.gov/do wnload.htm Federal Noxious Weed Act, 7 USC 2801-2814; Federal Seed Act 7 USC 1551-1611

Clinton, WJ, “Invasive Species” Executive Order 13112 Federal Register Vol 64, No 25 Presidential Documents 64FR6183 http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:p di://oma.eop.gov.us/1999/2/3/14.text.2

Government Agencies

USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Noxious Weeds Home Page http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ ppq/weeds/

Federal Noxious Weed List http://www. aphis.usda.gov/ppq/bats/fnwsbycat-e.html

APHIS Review http://www.aphis.us da.gov/npb/safegard.html

US Forest Service http://refuges.fws.gov/NWRSFiles/InternetResources/Weeds.html

US Fish and Wildlife - Pulling Together: National Strategy for Invasive Plant Management: http://bluegoose.arw.r9.fws.gov/FICMNEWFiles/NatlWeedStrategyTO C.html

Nursery and Gardening Resources

American Nursery and Landscape Association www.anla.org

USDA, Economic Research Service (1999) Floriculture and Environmental Horticulture—ERS Briefing Room http://www.eco n.ag.gov/briefing/floral/index.htm

Nursery associations: http://www.nurseryman.net/

Garden Club of America http://www.gcamerica.org/

Economics

Costly Interlopers, Scientific American http://www.sciam.com/explorations/1999/021599animals/index.html (includes references and links to Pimentel's article)

Pimentel D, Lach L, Zuniga R, Morrison D. (1999) Environmental and economic costs associated with non-indigenous species in the United States. <http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Jan99/species_cos ts.html> (June 12, 1999).