[MAIPC] Five-fingered Aralia Spotted in Baltimore City

Thu Aug 2 08:51:01 PDT 2018

UPDATE: I did a 3 hour survey of Wyman Park again this morning.

The bad news is that I found another, much larger and much denser
population of the aralia
<https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/15045528> nearby. I
submitted this report to EDDMapS via the MAEDN app. The good news is that
the plant does not appear to have spread across the dell to the other side
of the park, and seems to be isolated to the embankment along Charles
Street. I surveyed the yards of houses from the 32nd through 29th street
blocks along Charles, St. Paul, and Calvert Streets, the streets running
along the perimeter of the park, as well as the adjacent Baltimore Museum
of Art and its Sculpture Garden to try and locate an ornamental planting,
but did not find one. It's possible that it could have been planted in an
alley-facing fenced in backyard. So far I have not found a source
ornamental plant near the infestation site. I am unsure how the plant got
into Wyman Park.

Links to images: Image 1
<https://static.inaturalist.org/photos/22459110/original.jpeg?1533224048>,
Image
2 <https://static.inaturalist.org/photos/22459124/original.jpeg?1533224062>,
Image 3
<https://static.inaturalist.org/photos/22459139/original.jpeg?1533224071>,
Image
4 <https://static.inaturalist.org/photos/22459152/original.jpeg?1533224084>

Best wishes,
Kate Wagner

On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 4:04 PM, Don Callihan <don_ihan at hotmail.com> wrote:

> This shows the value of initiatives such as the NCR PRISM that was
> launched yesterday!!! Now we need a PRISM for the Baltimore region!!
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> Kate comes to us from North Carolina and on the ride home from the
> National Arboretum with her it was clear to me that she has “the eye” for
> spotting invasives. [Kate, you should submit your Aralia observation to the
> Statewide Eyes programhttp://dnr.maryland.gov/wildlife/Pages/statewide_
> eyes.aspx using the MAEDN app https://www.eddmaps.org/midatlantic/ ASAP.]
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> Thanks for your contribution to the group, Kate.
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> Best,
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> Don
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> *Don Callihan*
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> *From:* Burke, John <John.Burke2 at fairfaxcounty.gov>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 1, 2018 3:49 PM
> *To:* Rod Simmons <Rod.Simmons at alexandriava.gov>; Ossi, Damien (DOEE) <
> damien.ossi at dc.gov>; maipc at lists.maipc.org
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> *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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> 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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> *From:* MAIPC [mailto:maipc-bounces at lists.maipc.org
> <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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> Damien
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> Damien Ossi
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> *Damien P. Ossi*
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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
> <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eddmaps.org%2Fmidatlantic%2Fdistribution%2Fusstate.cfm%3Fsub%3D57528&data=02%7C01%7CRobert.Servis%40montgomeryparks.org%7C6a2bb1dbe92a464b19cb08d5f7c4f924%7Ca9061e0c24ca4c1cbeff039bb8c05816%7C0%7C1%7C636687347737305394&sdata=7WJwIG%2Fmi4wnHlqPV6vPjkTmQRK2XaCe3rFyuphzyFc%3D&reserved=0>,
> 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,
>
> Kate Wagner.
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