[MAIPC] MAIPC Digest, Vol 87, Issue 24 - Response on plant changing locale both native and non-native

Sun Feb 24 13:21:30 PST 2019

Hi, I just read Damien's post on plants moving from warmer climates - there are a few of them that were not considered to be native to the geographical Coastal Plain area here in Virginia Beach, Eastern Shore up through Maryland, Norfolk, Hampton, etc. The two that are making their way here that one does not expect to find are Mountain Laurel 

| Kalmia latifolia |
|  |
| Kalmia latifolia flowers |
| Conservation status |
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Secure (NatureServe) |
| Scientific classification |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Genus: | Kalmia |
| Species: | K. latifolia |
| Binomial name |
| Kalmia latifolia
L. |
|  |

Kalmia latifolia, and Stokesia. While mountain laurel  may be an acidic loving plant - the soil here is very acidic - it is unusual that it is taking a position in non-rocky and non-mountainous areas here and growing wild.  The last updated Tidewater plant book from 1980 does not list it as belonging to this area. The other plant that has popped up unexpectedly is the Stokesia and since it likes well drained soil it does not make much sense that it would be showing up here but it has and does - it also is not listed in the most recent books since 1980 on Tidewater native and Coastal plants.  There is a push to sell Stokesia in the garden websites but that would not show why it would show up in what is nearly a wetlands garden. The Tidewater area right now is flooded. As for Non-natives - Chinese Privet - Ligustrum sinense is literally taking over every site that it can get its rhizomes on. It is showing up in local parks, in open areas and is spreading like mad colonists. The colonies that are forming are less than a foot apart - the rhizomes are that thick. The non-native Galiums are also compounding the problem here in the Coastal Plain. The Odoratum and the Bedstraw both from Northern Africa and Europe have no biological controls. They are crowding out the Common and Native Violets that need to get their roots into the ground in order to feed local Native populations of fritillary 

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  1. Re: Invasive plants and climate change (Ossi, Damien (DOEE))

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Thanks, everyone.  I had not thought of Miscanthus or fountaingrass.  And I agree that it?s difficult to tease out the differing impacts that climate and planting/seed pressure have on invasives that are showing up in natural areas.  I can?t even begin to think of how to set up a study that could tease those out.

Damien

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to add to the complication - how to differentiate climate-related factors from simple proliferation of human-planted source sites? If fashion promotes planting of a species either in new home developments or in greater quantities than before, propagule pressure will increase. The planting decisions might be guided to some extent by climatic factors, but they might simply reflect fads and marketing.

Faith

In a message dated 1/31/2019 1:58:29 PM Eastern Standard Time, kirsten2622 at comcast.net writes:

Miscanthus is a huge problem in the rare serpentine area of Lake Roland in Baltimore County. It has spread into the park and all up and down Falls Road from one business that planted it out front.

Kirsten Johnson

On Jan 31, 2019, at 1:54 PM, Servis, Robert <Robert.Servis at montgomeryparks.org<mailto:Robert.Servis at montgomeryparks.org>> wrote:

I agree, Miscanthus has really taken off in the Mid-Atlantic area in the last few years I feel.  I?m seeing it more and more in ?natural areas?(where it has obviously escaped the landscape beds), at least here in Montgomery Co., Md.

Another one that comes to mind is Black Fountain Grass (and/or other species of commonly landscaped ?fountain grasses?).  I have started seeing this MUCH more in natural areas just in the past 3-5yrs than I had ever noticed before.  It is spreading even into maintained lawn grasses.  (I have a small patch In the corner of my yard that has come around the corner of my fence from the neighbors landscaped flowerbed ??trying to now come up with a good control for it without killing the rest of my lawn grass, or having to dig it all up by hand and have holes in the yard.

*not sure if the spread of these is somewhat due to warming climates or what the true factors involved here are, but It seems that warming climates would only help the spread of these species if anything.
I know the seeds are transported sometimes by vehicle tires, lawn mowers, in-proper disposal of yard/landscape clippings, etc.., in addition to being wind dispersed. I am seeing it a lot on open, abundantly sunny wood edges, mowed paths, and even now into the shady understory of mature forested areas.

Hopefully this is helpful, but I?ll try to keep thinking of others.

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I agree about Boston ivy but the species that seem(s) to really exemplify the potential is Miscanthus spp. A huge problem in the south and becoming more so here.

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 11:11 AM MARGARET L CHATHAM <margaret.chatham at verizon.net<mailto:margaret.chatham at verizon.net>> wrote:
I agree that oriental bittersweet is a growing problem, but not that it?s an example of an exotic pest moving south-to-north. My first introduction to the idea of invasive exotic plants was fighting oriental bittersweet in Connecticut, 1978-81. At the time, I didn?t know of anyone else fighting the problem, but I called it a ?take-over-the-world? plant & honed my recognition of it in its earliest, most easily pullable stages.

Margaret Chatham

On Jan 31, 2019, at 10:53 AM, Marc Imlay <ialm at erols.com<mailto:ialm at erols.com>> wrote:

In Maryland Oriental Bittersweet has become about 10 times more difficult to control in the last decade bas discussed at a MISAC meeting by many folks in the meeting.

Marc Imlay, PhD

Conservation biologist, Park Ranger Office, Non-native Invasive Plant Control coordinator.
(301) 442-5657 cell  ialm at erols.com<mailto:ialm at erols.com>
Natural and Historical Resources Division
The  Maryland-National  Capital  Park  and Planning Commission

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Subject: Re: [MAIPC] Invasive plants and climate change

The Invasive Plants guide sold by StackPole is sorted climatically and I have found it a good indicator of what can transition with a few degrees of minimum maximum temperatures. But it will take longer for them to acclimate their reproductive day length cycles to be fertile  seed distributors.

Melissa A. Bravo, M.S. CCA, Agronomist
Meadow Lake Farm Consulting Services 814-574-4067 / bravomelissa at yahoo.com<mailto:bravomelissa at yahoo.com>

On Thursday, January 31, 2019, 10:10:44 AM EST, Ossi, Damien (DOEE) <damien.ossi at dc.gov<mailto:damien.ossi at dc.gov>> wrote:

Question:  What, if any, invasive plant species appear to be spreading into the mid-Atlantic due to climate change?  I know there?s been talk of southern magnolia and other species that are native to just south of here starting to naturalize in our area, but I?m more interested exotic invasives.

What invasive plants are common in southern Virginia or northern North Carolina that we just don?t have in our area, but could move here with warmer climates?

Thanks,

Damien

Damien P. Ossi

Wildlife Biologist

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