Invasive Species Updates (recent articles in The Plant Press):
The Sonoran Desert Weedwackers,
by Barb Skye Siegel
The Arizona Noxious Weed Program
Serves the Citizens, by Cindy Salo
Learn more about the origins of buffelgrass and fountaingrass and how to identify them by viewing this PowerPoint presentation: The War on Invasive Bunch Grasses: How the Sonoran Desert Weedwackers are waging the battle on the enemy. (3.7 Mb)
Download a brochure on buffelgrass that explains why it needs to be removed from neighborhoods.
Fountain grass (Pennisetum setaceum) and buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) are spreading through the Sonoran Desert and threatening our distinctive native Sonoran Desert plants. ANPS has prepared two flyers on invasive nonnative species. PDF versions of these flyers can be downloaded or viewed in your browser.
 Fountaingrass (Pennisetum
setaceum)Buffelgrass (Pennisteum
ciliare) |
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Follow these links for more information about invasive species.
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Backyard
Ponds and Exotic Pests. Bullfrogs and crayfish threaten
- Arizona Department of Agriculture: Noxious Weed List
- Arizona AgNIC: Rangeland Management
- Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum information: Invaders Program
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health and Inspection Service: Noxious Weeds Home Page
- National Biological Information Infrastructure: Invasive Species
- New England Wild Flower Society: Sources of Invasive Plant Information
- U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service: Invasive Species Program
- Pima County Exotic Species: Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan information
- Plant Conservation Alliance: Weeds Gone Wild
- U.S. Geological Survey Southwest Exotic Plant Mapping Program / Southwest Exotic Plant Information Clearinghouse , Arizona Wildlands Invasive Plants, Alien Plants Ranking System
- Invasive Species Research
- The Nature Conservancy: Wildland Invasive Species Program
- Plant Conservation Alliance Plant Conservation Alliance Website Plant Lists of Alien Plant Invaders
- The Center for Invasive Plant Management represents a coalition of agencies, organizations, and individuals interested in managing invasive plants and maintaining healthy ecosystems in western North America.
National
Center for Invasive Plant
Management
EncycloWeedia
Plant Conservation Alliance
The Nature Conservancy Invasive
Species Initiative
State & Regional
Southwest Exotic
Plant Information Clearinghouse
USGS Western Ecological Research Center
Southwest Vegetation Management
Association
Invasive Non-Native Plants That Threaten Wildlands in Arizona - You
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Arizona Invasive Species
Council
Arizona Department of Transportation. Natural Resources
Arizona Department of
Agriculture -Plant Services Division
California Invasive Plant Council
Local
USGS Buffelgrass
eradication and outreach
Aquatic Nuisance Species
Task Force. Stop Aquatic Hitchhikers
Sonoran Desert Conservation
Plan
