[MAIPC] Five-fingered Aralia Spotted in Baltimore City

Wed Aug 1 13:41:33 PDT 2018

All,

I identified this plant for Fred Walker who dropped by my office at Center
for Urban Ecology in August 2012. I mapped his occurrence, based on his
best description while I had EDDMapS opened on my computer:
http://www.eddmaps.org/midatlantic/distribution/point.cfm?id=2415456

I found additional patches along MacArthur Blvd. in Cabin John. I mapped
these using MAEDN but it was an early version of the app and I must've had
some issue getting my report submitted for that location. I don't see my
report in EDDMapS. I'll revisit the area within the next few weeks and
report whatever populations I find.

Jil
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Jil Swearingen
Invasive Species Consultant
*In the Weeds*
410-200-7085

On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 3:49 PM Burke, John <John.Burke2 at fairfaxcounty.gov>
wrote:

> I’ve been keeping an eye out for this stuff since it was spotted in
> Arlington (10 years ago?). I haven’t seen it in any Fairfax stormwater
> ponds.
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> *John Burke|*Ecologist III
> Stormwater Management Branch
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> Fairfax Co. DPWES
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> 10635 West Dr.
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> Fairfax, VA  22030
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> Office: 703.877.2879
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> *From:* MAIPC [mailto:maipc-bounces at lists.maipc.org] * On Behalf Of *Rod
> Simmons
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 1, 2018 3:04 PM
> *To:* Ossi, Damien (DOEE) <damien.ossi at dc.gov>; maipc at lists.maipc.org
> *Cc:* Alonso Abugattas <aabugattas at arlingtonva.us>; Alex Taylor <
> alexktaylor65 at gmail.com>; Lee Patrick <leeipctn at mindspring.com>; Scott
> Graham (JGraham at arlingtonva.us) <JGraham at arlingtonva.us>
> *Subject:* Re: [MAIPC] Five-fingered Aralia Spotted in Baltimore City
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> Invasive Plant Control (IPC) treated a huge flume of this crud in a mesic
> ravine at lower Donaldson Run Park in Arlington County, Virginia earlier
> this year.  Fortunately, we haven’t seen this non-native invasive plant in
> adjacent City of Alexandria yet.
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> *From:* MAIPC <maipc-bounces at lists.maipc.org> *On Behalf Of *Ossi, Damien
> (DOEE)
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 01, 2018 2:49 PM
> *To:* maipc at lists.maipc.org
> *Subject:* Re: [MAIPC] Five-fingered Aralia Spotted in Baltimore City
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> I’ve treated small populations of this species in Spring Valley Park and
> in Linnean Park, both in DC.  Both were growing into the parks from
> adjacent yards.  I’ve never seen it on its own in a natural area.  There’s
> also a specimen in my neighbor’s yard in Greenbelt, and a nice hedgerow
> here
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> *From:* MAIPC [mailto:maipc-bounces at lists.maipc.org
> <maipc-bounces at lists.maipc.org>] *On Behalf Of *Servis, Robert
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 01, 2018 1:52 PM
> *To:* Kate Wagner; maipc at lists.maipc.org
> *Subject:* Re: [MAIPC] Five-fingered Aralia Spotted in Baltimore City
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> I have treated it in Rock Creek Park (DC side), around the park police
> horse stables/community garden off of Oregon Ave.   that was at least 10
> yrs ago, and I had checked for a few years after treatment but haven’t seen
> the area in the last 5-7yrs to know if it has rebounded at all or if it
> gave up the fight.
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> I believe it is also called “Five Leaved Aralia” and what I treated looked
> exactly like what you have in the pics.  Medium sized, multi stemmed shrub
> 5-8 ft. tall (generally) and small very sharp thorns on the stems (at/near
> the base of the leaves).
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> This is one of the only places that I have seen it in the DC, Md, Northern
> VA area however,  hopefully it is not more wide spread than we realize.
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> Thanks for the heads up on the Baltimore County sighting, we will keep our
> eye out.
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> *From:* MAIPC <maipc-bounces at lists.maipc.org> *On Behalf Of *Kate Wagner
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 01, 2018 11:39 AM
> *To:* maipc at lists.maipc.org
> *Subject:* [MAIPC] Five-fingered Aralia Spotted in Baltimore City
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> Hello MA-IPC,
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> I wanted to alert the listserve that I've spotted a developing stand of
> Five-fingered Aralia
> <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eddmaps.org%2Fmidatlantic%2Fdistribution%2Fcounty.cfm%3Fsub%3D57528%26id%3Dus_md_24510&data=02%7C01%7CRobert.Servis%40montgomeryparks.org%7C6a2bb1dbe92a464b19cb08d5f7c4f924%7Ca9061e0c24ca4c1cbeff039bb8c05816%7C0%7C1%7C636687347737295389&sdata=3smdqlgkqrBqPZ6d6jYpgx%2B%2FpssOm7EKc43zcvpS0NE%3D&reserved=0>
> (*Eleutherococcus sieboldianus*) in Baltimore City. The plant, which does
> not appear to have been intentionally planted, has colonized approximately
> 35 square feet of an embankment in Wyman Park. The report has been
> verified on EDDMapS.
> <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eddmaps.org%2Fdistribution%2Frecord.cfm%3Fid%3D7638330&data=02%7C01%7CRobert.Servis%40montgomeryparks.org%7C6a2bb1dbe92a464b19cb08d5f7c4f924%7Ca9061e0c24ca4c1cbeff039bb8c05816%7C0%7C1%7C636687347737305394&sdata=3%2FZ7xANprP4znoJJQpt%2BEydCl1OVJXY68zpq0gpMTfo%3D&reserved=0> This
> is the first verified sighting of the plant in Maryland in EDDMapS since
> May 2016
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> and is the first in Baltimore City. My hope is that this is an isolated
> incident and that the plant has merely escaped from a nearby ornamental
> planting. I plan on taking a closer look on my walk tomorrow.
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> Links to pictures of the specimen: Image 1
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> Image 2
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> Image 3
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> Since I did not see any prior Baltimore area reports of the plant on
> either iNaturalist or EDDMapS, I wanted to make sure the listserve was made
> aware of this sighting just in case.
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> Best wishes,
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> Kate Wagner.
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