Huisache, wild rose, and dewberry vines.

Horsetails

Chinese Tallow Tree, more commonly known as Popcorn Tree.

Have one on the shoreline of a lake cabin in AL. My wife has been in a battle with it for years now. It laughs at Roundup of similar herbicides, it has been cut back to the ground and I shit you not will regrow seemingly in a couple weeks while we are away.

VERY invasive, but looks nice! Thankfully the prevailing wind is towards my neighbors yard, so they are getting the offering during this battle.

AL Forestry

Look at that, some ideas on how to actually kill it!

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Originally posted by 12131:
Around here, it's the Bougainvillea, commonly known as the paper flower plant.

We always called bougainvillea the, “I hate my neighbor bush”.
Someone 200 yards away could have one and every house around would have piles of flowers in every nook where the wind swirled.

Kudzu. Nothing stops it. The Deep South will soon be totally obscured by Kudzu.

RMD

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Originally posted by 229DAK:

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Originally posted by architect:
You obviously don't have the Japanese Stilt Grass in your neck of the woods (yet).

That shit showed up about 4-5 years ago here in my neck of NoVA. The stuff that kills it is overly expensive - tried it once with marginal results....... I'd love to know how that shit got here.

Supposedly it was used as packing material for porcelain and other fragile items that were shipped from Asia.

It's not so much of a problem where it can be mowed but once it gets in a forest it spreads covering up the native plants. It prevents forests from regenerating by smothering saplings.

The boss in Phoenix used to elaborate profusely
about his extreme dislike for bougainvillea.
Don't get him started.

Until the new neighbor in the back planted bamboo.
Then
O.M.G.

He said it took them 8 years of trying to finally
Eradicate it.

And
They watched closely for an additional five
Fo it to spring up.

I will stick to the vermin in my yard at my home.

I deal with Nutgrass (nutsedge) and Chinese Elm. Nutgrass is a horrible grass and the Chinese Elm is a horrible invasive weed tree that grows crazy fast. Both are next to impossible to get rid of. The Chinese Elm came from bird droppings and I can’t get rid of them. I have tried everything. I have tried pulling them up, but like nutgrass, if you leave a single piece of the root in the ground, it grows right back. I have tried as suggested on websites to cutting the Chinese Elm to a two inch stalk, splitting it into four, and then carefully painting the stub with pure concentrated Round-Up. It kills it and then along with all my good plants around it, and still freaking grows back! There is another vine I am dealing with but I can’t think of the name right now. These things are almost impossible to get rid of!

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Originally posted by Dzozer:
When I lived in Washington it was Blackberry, hands down...
Around here it's Bush Honeysuckle - it releases a herbicide as it spreads to kill all other plants, has billions of seeds, and grows 10 feet in a few months.

Still is.

Evidently people in other parts of the country actually pay for and plant blackberries on purpose.

In SouthWest Oregon I have to go with blackberry. The birds will spread it for miles and once those things get established there are years and years of seeds waiting to come up. Spray it, burn it, plow it under, it comes back.

In the Spring it is growing so aggressive it spits RoundUp out. Have to apply it late July early August just when it starts sending reserves to the roots. Then hit it with CrossBow a day later. Then the birds will reseed your lawn again.

I should get a goat.

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Originally posted by StorminNormin:
I will stick to the vermin in my yard at my home.
I deal with Nutgrass (nutsedge) and Chinese Elm. Nutgrass is a horrible grass and the Chinese Elm is a horrible invasive weed tree that grows crazy fast.

My friends Father in Law was a greens keeper at a golf course.
Someone would ask him about “How do I get rid of nutgrass”.
His answer was to move!
I haven’t any idea what Chinese Elm is or even looks like but I’m sure I don’t want to find out.

A thin tendril of kudzu will rise up and flip the switch off when the last light in the world goes out.

Jujube tree. Planted 2, each a different variety for proper pollination. Thankfully 1 died. The other one became invasive. I was killing off sucker's 50 feet away from the tree, even under my fence . I had about 20 mimi trees within a 3' diameter circle. Finally, after burning the main trunk with a charcoal and wood fire for several days was then able to kill off the sucker's.

JUJUBE TREES

Kudzu and Privet.
Muscadine vines grow slower than Kudzu but are relentless too.

Around here I'd say two are swallow-wort and phragmites. Both are invasive. I've seen patched of phragmites so thick one can't even walk in it. Where I hunt there is one patch the deer will make trails and bed in (took me a few years to discover this after walking right by it). Swallow-wort is just as bad but only gets a few feet tall.

Grapevines, buckthorn and honeysuckle are right up there as well.

crabgrass, clover, dandelions

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Originally posted by Dzozer:
Around here it's Bush Honeysuckle - it releases a herbicide as it spreads to kill all other plants, has billions of seeds, and grows 10 feet in a few months.

Lots of sweet berries with lots of seeds with little nutritional value that the animals readily eat and get little out of, but spread the seeds everywhere.

I've got 15 acres of the stuff. On top of all that it greens up way before anything else, shading anything else out, and keeps its leaves well beyond anything else. If they fall off at all. Some of them still have their leaves now, snow on the ground, temps in the 20's. It will be a lifetime battle, but left alone it will grow into its own canopy system.

Anyone mention Morning Glory?

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Originally posted by Beancooker:
The Paradise Tree. Also known as the Tree of Heaven. The damn things don’t die, resist poisons, and produce so many seeds.

Worthless trees. Weak wood with a foam like core. You can’t burn it because of the stench. It smells like piss on a campfire.


https://azinvasiveplants.arizo...ve-plant/tree-heaven

It’s also known as the Ghetto Palm in the Detroit area. Grows anywhere, even from rooftops.

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Originally posted by k5blazer:
Yuccas in the desert southwest.

I don't think it matters where they are, Yuccas are invincible. We have one here in the NE that, try as we might, we just can't rid of it.

Adios,

Pizza Bob