Vt. Agency of Agriculture declares 8 new invasive plants

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Vt. Agency of Agriculture declares 8 new invasive plants

By Melissa Cooney
Published: Jun. 6, 2024 at 5:47 AM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - Invasive plants are showing up uninvited in gardens across Vermont, and the Agency of Agriculture wants you to keep an eye out for them.

The plants you should be on the lookout for include kudzu, mile-a-minute, Japanese stiltgrass, porcelain berry, wineberry, waterwheel, water hyacinth, and water soldier.

These plants look pretty on the outside, but experts worry they pose an ecological and economic threat to the Green Mountain State.

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See here for information on how to report invasives.

[BobTheSubgenius]

1. Giant hogweed is horrifyingly bad!

Orders of magnitude worse than poison ivy. Friends had it pop up in the bottom of a little fake well in their front yard, and called the muni. about it. The muni sent a horticultural hazmat team to get rid of it.

If you ever see it, give it a WIDE berth. The residual effects from a brush with this stuff can leave you feeling the toxin and bearing the scars for, quite literally, years.

Under NO circumstances try to burn it. I read of a woman who made a bonfire with some poison ivy she'd reaped, and the smoke so insulted her upper respiratory that she DIED. And hogweed is way, way worse.