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Non-native Plants of the Elfin Forest

Scientific Name Common Name



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Anagallis arvensis ● Scarlet pimpernel



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Asparagus asparagoides ●● African asparagus fern




Very invasive in oak groves.
Avena barbata ● Slender wild oats



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Avena fatua ● Common wild oats



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Brachypodium distachyon ●● False brome



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Brassica spp ● & ●● Mustards





Bromus diandrus ●● Ripgut brome



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Bromus hordeaceus ● Soft chess brome



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Bromus madritensis ssp. rubens ●● Red brome



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Bromus tectorum ●● Cheat grass



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Cardaria draba ●● Hoary cress



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Carduus pycnocephalus ●● Italian thistle



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Carpobrotus chilensis ● Sea fig



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Carpobrotus edulis ●● Hottentot fig



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Centaurea melitensis ●● Tocalote



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Cerastium glomeratum ● Mouse-ear chickweed



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Chamomilla suaveolens ● Pineapple weed



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Chenopodium album ● Lamb’s quarters



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Cirsium vulgare ●● Bull thistle



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Conicosia pugioniformis ●● Narrow-leaved iceplant



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Cotula coronopifolia ● Brass buttons



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Cynodon dactylon ● Bermuda grass



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Delairea odorata ●● Cape ivy



📷 Highly invasive. Formerly Senecio nikanioides
Ehrharta calycina ●● Veldt grass



📷 Spikelets reddish. Very invasive.
Ehrharta erecta ●● Panic veldtgrass



📷 Unlike E. calycina grows in oak groves
Erodium botrys ● Storkbill filaree



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Erodium cicutarium ● Red-stem filaree



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Euphorbia peplus ● Petty spurge



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Festuca arundinacea ● Tall fescue



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Festuca pratensis ● Meadow fescue



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Foeniculum vulgare ●● Fennel



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Geranium dissectum ● Cut-leaf geranium



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Hedera helix ●● English ivy



📷 Very invasive plant
Hirschfeldia incana ● Perennial mustard



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Hordeum murinum ● Foxtail barley



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Hypochaeris glabra ● Smooth cat's ear



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Lamarckia aurea ● Goldentop



📷 Flower golden to purplish
Lobularia maritima ● Sweet alyssum



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Lolium perenne ● Perennial ryegrass



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Lotus corniculatus ● Birdfoot trefoil



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Malva parviflora ● Cheeseweed



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Medicago polymorpha ● Burclover



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Melilotus alba ● White sweet-clover



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Melilotus indica ● Yellow sweet-clover



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Mesembryanthemum crystallinum ●● Crystalline iceplant



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Plantago lanceolata ● English plantain



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Polygonum arenastrum ● Common knotweed



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Raphanus sativus ● Wild radish



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Rumex acetosella ● Sour-dock



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Rumex crispus ● Curly dock



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Schismus arabicus ● Mediterranean grass



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Setaria viridis ● Green bristlegrass



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Silene gallica ● Windmill pink



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Sonchus asper ● Prickly sow thistle



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Sonchus oleraceus ● Common sow thistle



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Sorghum halepense ● Johnsongrass



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Urtica urens ● Dwarf nettle



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Vulpia myuros ● Rattail fescue



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  ● = non-native species
●● = invasive non-native species which is or has the potential to negatively impact the native species of the Elfin Forest.