Top Expanding Missouri Invasive Plants

Callery Pear/Pyrus calleryana

Garlic Mustard/Alliaria petiolata

Sericea lespedeza/Lespedeza cuneata

Invasive Privets/Ligustrum sp.

Reed canary grass/Phalaris arundinacea

Japanese stiltgrass/Microstegium vimineum

Invasive bush honeysuckle/Lonicera maackii

Himalayan blackberry/Rubus armeniacus

Japanese honeysuckle/Lonicera japonica

Japanese chaff flower/Achyranthes japonica

Round leaf bittersweet/Celastrus orbiculatus

Japanese Wisteria/Wisteria floribunda

Chinese Wisteria/Wisteria sinensis

Smooth Brome/Bromus inermis

Sweet autumn virginsblower/Clematis terniflora

Spotted knapweed/Centaurea stoebe

Japanese knotweed/Fallopia japonica

Burning bush/Euonymus alatus

Birdsfoot Trefoil/Lotus corniculatus

Johnson grass/Sorghum halepense

Old world bluestem/Bothriochloa spp.

Common reed/Phragmites australis