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Swaziland's Alien Plants Database
Plant Species - Swaziland Status |
Botanical Name |
Common Name |
Invasive? |
Major Problem Species |
Acacia decurrens |
green wattle, early black wattle, black wattle |
Highly Invasive |
Acacia mearnsii |
black wattle |
Highly Invasive |
Caesalpinia decapetala |
Mauritius thorn, mysore thorn, thorny poinciana, shoofly, wait a while |
Highly Invasive |
Chromolaena odorata |
Siam weed, paraffienbos, chromolaena, triffid weed, coacihuizpatli, Christmas bush, Armstrong's weed, eupatorium, kingweed, paraffinbush, paraffinweed, turpentine weed, bitter bush |
Highly Invasive |
Lantana camara |
lantana, yellow sage, red flowered sage, tick berry, wild sage, prickly lantana, white sage |
Highly Invasive |
Parthenium hysterophorus |
ragweed parthenium, parthenium weed, ragweed, Santa Maria feverfew, bitter weed, carrot grass, congress grass, false ragweed, ragweed parthenium, whitetop, demoina weed |
Invasive |
Psidium guajava |
apple guava, guava |
Highly Invasive |
Sesbania punicea |
red sesbania, coffee weed, rattlepod, purple sesbane, false poinciana, rattlebox, Brazilian glory pea |
Highly Invasive |
Solanum mauritianum |
bugweed, earleaf nightshade, wild tobacco tree, woolly nightshade, bug berry, bugtree, tobacco bush |
Highly Invasive |
Potential Major Problem Species |
Campuloclinium macrocephalum |
pom pom weed |
Highly Invasive |
Problem Species |
Acacia dealbata |
silver wattle, black wattle, Tasmania mimosa, blue wattle |
Invasive |
Acacia melanoxylon |
Australian blackwood, blackwood, blackwood acacia |
Invasive |
Argemone mexicana forma mexicana |
Mexican pricklepoppy, Mexican poppy, devil's fig, golden thistle of Peru, Mexican thistle, prickly poppy, white thistle, yellow poppy, umJelemani |
Invasive |
Argemone ochroleuca subsp. ochroleuca |
Mexican poppy, devil's fig, golden thistle of Peru, Mexican pricklepoppy, Mexican thistle, prickly poppy, white thistle, yellow poppy |
Invasive |
Datura ferox |
large thorn apple |
Invasive |
Datura sp. |
|
Disturbed areas |
Datura stramonium |
jimsonweed, Jamestown weed, thorn apple, common thornapple, mad apple |
Invasive |
Eucalyptus grandis |
gum tree |
Invasive |
Hakea salicifolia |
willow leaf hakea, willowleaved hakea, willow hakea |
Invasive |
Ipomoea carnea subsp. fistulosa |
bush morning glory |
Invasive |
Jacaranda mimosifolia |
jacaranda, blue Brazilian, Brazilian rosewood, fern tree |
Invasive |
Leucaena leucocephala |
leucaena |
Invasive |
Lilium formosanum |
St. Joseph's lily, Formosa lilly |
Invasive |
Melia azedarach |
syringa, Chinaberry, white cedar, cape lilac, tulip cedar, Indian bead tree, Persian lilac, margosa tree, azedarach, bead tree, berry tree, cape syringa, China tree, Chinese umbrella, Indian lilac |
Invasive |
Opuntia ficus-indica |
sweet prickly pear |
Invasive |
Opuntia humifusa |
creeping prickly pear |
Invasive |
Opuntia imbricata |
tree cholla |
Invasive |
Opuntia stricta |
erect prickly pear, common prickly pear, Araluen pear, common pest pear, sour prickly pear, Australian pest pear |
Invasive |
Pinus elliottii |
slash pine |
Invasive |
Pinus patula var. patula |
patula pine, Mexican yellow pine, spreading leaved pine, Mexican weeping pine |
Invasive |
Pityrogramma calomelanos var. aureoflava |
gold fern, golden fern |
Unknown |
Ricinus communis |
castor bean, castorbean tree, castor oil bush, castor oil plant, castor oil tree, wonder tree |
Invasive |
Rubus cuneifolius |
American bramble, Gozard's curse, sand blackberry, sand bramble |
Invasive |
Rubus niveus |
hill raspberry, Java bramble, mysore raspberry, snowpeaks raspberry, Ceylon raspberry |
Invasive |
Rubus rosifolius |
roseleaf raspberry, thimbleberry, Mauritius raspberry |
Invasive |
Senna didymobotrya |
wild senna, peanut butter cassia, African wild sensitive plant, candelabra tree, African senna, popcorn bush |
Invasive |
Senna occidentalis |
coffee senna, sickle pod, Nigerian senna, septicweed, stinkweed |
Invasive |
Sesbania bispinosa var. bispinosa |
sesbania, spiny sesbania |
Invasive |
Solanum nigrum |
black fruited nightshade, black nightshade, blackberry, chiSungubvana, common nightshade, deadly nightshade, duscle, enab el dib, erba morella, garden huckleberry, garden nightshade, harsh, hierba mora, hound's berry, i Xabaxaba, inkberry, makoy, maniloc |
Invasive |
Solanum seaforthianum |
silver-leaf bitter apple |
Invasive |
Solanum sisymbrifolium |
sticky nightshade, dense thorned bitter apple, wild tomato |
Invasive |
Tecoma stans |
yellow bells |
Invasive |
Tithonia diversifolia |
tree marigold, Mexican sunflower, Japanese sunflower |
Invasive |
Tithonia rotundifolia |
red sunflower |
Invasive |
Xanthium spinosum |
spiny cocklebur, burweed, prickly burweed, spiny clotbur, dagger cocklebur, dagger weed, thorny burweed |
Invasive |
Xanthium strumarium |
burweed, clotbur, cocklebur, sheepbur, ditchbur, heartleaf cocklebur, common cocklebur, rough cocklebur, buttonbur, ditchbur, sea burdock, hedgehog burweed, sheepbur |
Invasive |
Minor Problem Species |
Acanthospermum glabratum |
creeping starbur, five seeded prostrate starbur, Eight-seeded prostrate starbur, prostrate starbur, sheepbur |
Disturbed areas |
Acanthospermum hispidum |
bristly starbur, upright starbur, starburr |
Disturbed areas |
Achyranthes aspera var. aspera |
devils horsewhip, rough chaff flower |
Invasive |
Achyranthes aspera var. pubescens |
|
Invasive |
Achyranthes aspera var. sicula |
|
Invasive |
Adiantum raddianum |
Maidenhair fern |
Unknown |
Agave americana |
century plant, american agave |
Unknown |
Agave sisalana |
|
Invasive |
Ageratum conyzoides |
tropic ageratum, goat weed, billygoat weed, tropical whiteweed, blue top |
Disturbed areas |
Ageratum houstonianum |
Mexican ageratum, invading ageratum, goat weed, tropic ageratum, garden ageratum, bluemink, flossflower |
Disturbed areas |
Agrostis montevidensis |
fog grass |
Disturbed areas |
Alternanthera pungens |
paper thorn, creeping chaffweed, spingflower alternanthera, khaki bur weed |
Disturbed areas |
Alternanthera sessilis |
sessile flowered globe amaranth, sessile joyweed |
Disturbed areas |
Amaranthus caudatus |
love lies bleeding, Inca wheat, red hot cattail, foxtail, tassel flower, velvet flower |
Unknown |
Amaranthus hybridus subsp. cruentus |
|
Disturbed areas |
Amaranthus hybridus subsp. hybridus var. erythrostachys |
|
Unknown |
Amaranthus hybridus subsp. hybridus var. hybridus |
smooth pigweed, rough pigweed, slim amaranth, redshank, prince's feather, green amaranth, slender pigweed |
Unknown |
Amaranthus spinosus |
spiny amaranth, spiny pigweed, spring pigweed, needle burr |
Disturbed areas |
Arundo donax |
Giant reed, Spanish reed |
Invasive |
Aster squamatus |
swamp aster |
Disturbed areas |
Axonopus affinis |
carpet grass |
Disturbed areas |
Bauhinia purpurea |
Butterfly orchid tree |
Invasive |
Bauhinia variegata var. variegata |
|
Invasive |
Bidens bipinnata |
Spanish needles, cobbler's pegs, beggar's ticks, black fellows, black jack, bur marigold, pitchfork, Spanish black jack, sweet hearts, soapbush needles, beggar lice |
Disturbed areas |
Bidens biternata |
yellow flowered blackjack, black jack, five leaved blackjack, beggar ticks |
Disturbed areas |
Bidens pilosa |
hairy beggarticks, cobbler's pegs, beggar's tick, pitch forks, stick tights, bur, Spanish needle, black jack |
Disturbed areas |
Bromus catharticus |
prairie grass, rescue grass, brome grass |
Disturbed areas |
Canna indica |
indian shot, garden canna |
Invasive |
Cannabis sativa |
dagga |
Disturbed areas |
Capsicum frutescens |
African chilli, African pepper, bird pepper, capsicum, cayenne pepper, chilli bean |
Disturbed areas |
Cardiospermum corindum |
|
Invasive |
Cardiospermum grandiflorum |
large balloon creeper |
Invasive |
Cardiospermum halicacabum |
|
Invasive |
Cardiospermum halicacabum var. halicacabum |
|
Invasive |
Cardiospermum halicacabum var. microcarpum |
|
Invasive |
Catharanthus roseus |
madagascar periwinkle, rose periwinkle |
Invasive |
Chenopodium album |
White goosefoot |
Disturbed areas |
Chenopodium ambrosioides |
Mexican tea |
Disturbed areas |
Chenopodium carinatum |
|
Disturbed areas |
Chenopodium giganteum |
|
Disturbed areas |
Chenopodium murale var. murale |
green fat hen, nettle-leaved goosefoot |
Disturbed areas |
Chenopodium phillipsianum |
|
Disturbed areas |
Chenopodium x bontei |
|
Disturbed areas |
Cirsium vulgare |
bull thistle, spear thistle, Scotch thistle, black thistle, common thistle, common bull thistle, Fuller's thistle, swamp thistle |
Invasive |
Coffea arabica |
coffee |
Unknown |
Conyza albida |
tall fleabane, broad leaved fleabane, fleabane |
Disturbed areas |
Conyza bonariensis |
fleabane, hairy fleabane, flaxleaved fleabane, horseweed, asthma weed |
Disturbed areas |
Conyza canadensis |
horseweed fleabane, Canadian horseweed, Canada fleabane, butterweed, blood stanch, colt's tail, fireweed, hogweed, horseweed, mare's tail, pride weed |
Disturbed areas |
Conyza chilensis |
|
Disturbed areas |
Conyza dioscoridis |
|
Disturbed areas |
Conyza sp. |
fleabane |
Disturbed areas |
Corchorus sp. |
wild jute |
Unknown |
Corchorus tridens |
tridens corchorus, wild jute, nyenje |
Unknown |
Corchorus trilocularis |
native jute, wild jute, three locule corchorus |
Unknown |
Cosmos bipinnatus |
cosmos |
Disturbed areas |
Cosmos sulphureus |
sulphur cosmos |
Disturbed areas |
Cotoneaster franchetii |
Orange cotoneaster |
Invasive |
Cotoneaster franchetti/pannosus |
|
Invasive |
Cotoneaster pannosus |
Silver-leaf cotoneaster |
Invasive |
Crotalaria brevidens var. intermedia |
Ethiopian rattlebox |
Unknown |
Crotalaria juncea |
sunn hemp |
Unknown |
Crotalaria ochroleuca |
slender leaf rattlebox |
Unknown |
Cuscuta campestris |
field dodder, golden dodder, dodder, angel's hair, common dodder, strangle vine |
Invasive |
Cynodon nlemfuensis |
African Bermuda grass |
Disturbed areas |
Digitaria didactyla |
blue couchgrass, Swazi grass, Swaziland fingergrass |
Unknown |
Digitaria nuda |
|
Unknown |
Digitaria sanguinalis |
hairy crabgrass |
Unknown |
Duranta erecta |
golden dewdrop duranta, pigeon berry, Brazilian skyflower, golden dewdrops, variegated dew drop |
Disturbed areas |
Eclipta prostrata |
white eclipta, false daisy, eclipta, white heads |
Disturbed areas |
Eleusine indica subsp. indica |
Indian goosegrass, ox grass, crabgrass, crow's foot grass, goose grass, landgrass, rapoko grass, wire grass, yard grass |
Disturbed areas |
Eragrostis barrelieri |
Mediterranean lovegrass, pitted lovegrass |
Unknown |
Eragrostis pilosa |
India lovegrass, soft lovegrass, indian lovegrass, pilose eragrostis, small tufted lovegrass, spear grass, slender meadow grass |
Unknown |
Euphorbia hirta |
|
Disturbed areas |
Euphorbia hypericifolia |
graceful sandmat |
Unknown |
Flaveria bidentis |
coastal plain yellowtops, smelter's bush, yellowtop, valda, smeltersbossie |
Unknown |
Galinsoga ciliata |
Peruvian daisy, hairy galinsoga, ciliate galinsoga, galinsoga, quickweed, shaggy soldier |
Unknown |
Galinsoga parviflora |
galinsoga, smallflower galinsoga, potato weed, gallant soldier, yellow weed, smallflowered quickweed, galinsoga weed, chickweed, potato weed, kew weed |
Unknown |
Gamochaeta coarctata |
purple cudweed, cudweed |
Unknown |
Gamochaeta pennsylvanica |
gnaphalium, wandering cudweed |
Disturbed areas |
Gamochaeta subfalcata |
|
Disturbed areas |
Glinus lotoides var. lotoides |
lotus sweetjuice |
Unknown |
Gnaphalium polycaulon |
many stem cudweed |
Disturbed areas |
Hemerocallis fulva |
daylillies, orange daylily, tawny daylily, common daylily |
Unknown |
Hibiscus trionum |
bladder ketmia |
Unknown |
Hydrocotyle americana |
marsh pennywort, American marshpennywort, navelwort, water pennywort |
Disturbed areas |
Hypochaeris radicata |
|
Disturbed areas |
Ipomoea indica |
blue morningglory, purple morningglory, ocean blue morningglory, fue moa, purperwinde, morning glory |
Invasive |
Ipomoea purpurea |
tall morningglory, common morningglory, annual morning glory |
Invasive |
Lantana trifolia |
threeleaf shrubverbena |
Invasive |
Lepidium capense |
cape peppercress |
Unknown |
Lycopersicon esculentum var. cerasiforme |
tomato |
Disturbed areas |
Mangifera indica |
mango |
Unknown |
Nephrolepis exaltata |
Sword fern, Boston fern |
Invasive |
Nicandra physalodes |
apple of Peru, shoofly plant, wild hops, Peru apple, Chinese lantern, wild gooseberry, belladona |
Unknown |
Nicotiana glauca |
wild tobacco |
Invasive |
Nicotiana tabacum |
tobacco |
Disturbed areas |
Oenothera biennis |
common evening primrose, yellow eveningprimrose, evening primrose, helokki, German rampion |
Unknown |
Oenothera glazioviana |
redsepal evening primrose, reddish evening primrose, evening primrose, onagre à grandes fleurs |
Disturbed areas |
Oenothera indecora subsp. indecora |
small-flower evening primrose |
Disturbed areas |
Oenothera jamesii |
giant evening primrose, trumpet evening primrose |
Disturbed areas |
Oenothera rosea |
rose evening primrose, evening primrose |
Unknown |
Oenothera tetraptera |
evening primrose, white evening primrose, fourwing evening primrose |
Invasive |
Oxalis corniculata |
yellow woodsorrel, procumbent yellow sorrel, Indian sorrel, sheep sorrel, sour grass, creeping woodsorrel, creeping sorrel, vinagrillo, tarhakäenkaali, oxalis, wood sorrel, yellow oxalis, creeping lady's sorrel, creeping oxalis |
Disturbed areas |
Oxalis latifolia |
purple flowered oxalis, shamrock, red garden sorrel, fishtail oxalis, broadleaf woodsorrel, garden sorrel, Mexican oxalis |
Disturbed areas |
Paspalum dilatatum |
paspalum, watergrass, water paspalum, pasto miel, caterpillar grass, Leichhardt grass, bastard millet grass, common paspalum, golden crown grass, dallis grass, hairy flowered paspalum, large watergrass |
Disturbed areas |
Paspalum notatum |
Bahia grass, water couch, notatum grass, lawn paspalum |
Unknown |
Paspalum urvillei |
vasey grass, pasto vasey, giant paspalum, upright paspalum, tall paspalum |
Disturbed areas |
Passiflora edulis |
purple granadilla, passion fruit, yellow passion fruit, purple passion fruit |
Unknown |
Passiflora subpeltata |
Granadina |
Invasive |
Pennisetum clandestinum |
kikuyu grass |
Invasive |
Pennisetum purpureum |
napier grass, elephant grass |
Unknown |
Physalis angulata |
cutleaf groundcherry, ground cherry, lanceleaf groundcherry, purple vien groundcherry, southwest groundcherry |
Unknown |
Physalis peruviana |
Peruvian groundcherry, cape gooseberry, Barbados gooseberry, cherry tomato, gooseberry tomato, ground cherry, love apple, poha, strawberry tomato, wild gooseberry, winter cherry |
Disturbed areas |
Physalis viscosa |
Sticky ground cherry, sticky cape gooseberry |
Unknown |
Plantago lanceolata |
lance leaved plantain, buckhorn, ribwort plantain, ribwort, English plantain, narrow leaved plantain, buckhorn plantain, rib grass, rat tail, heinäratamo, German psyllium, lamb's tongue, small plantian, wild sago |
Disturbed areas |
Plantago major |
broadleaf plantain, yaa en yued, great plantain, ribwort plantain, llantén, large plantain, common plantain, dooryard plantain, whiteman's foot, grand plantain, ribwort, ribgrass, narrow leaved plantain |
Disturbed areas |
Poa annua |
annual bluegrass, winter grass, annual meadow grass |
Disturbed areas |
Richardia brasiliensis |
Brazil callalily, tropical Mexican clover, tropical richardia, Mexican richardia, white eye, yerba del sapo, poaia branca, Brazil pusley |
Disturbed areas |
Richardia scabra |
Florida purslane, pursley, yaa thaa phra, rough Mexican clover, white eye, poaia do cerrado, ricardia |
Invasive |
Rottboellia cochinchinensis |
guinea-fowl grass, itchgrass, Kelly grass, kokoma grass |
Unknown |
Sesamum indicum |
sesame, wild foxglove |
Disturbed areas |
Solanum melongena |
eggplant, aubergine |
Disturbed areas |
Solanum melongena var. esculentum |
|
Unknown |
Solanum viarum |
tropical soda apple |
Disturbed areas |
Sonchus asper subsp. asper |
rough sowthistle, prickly sowthistle, spiny sowthistle |
Unknown |
Sonchus oleraceus |
annual sowthistle, common sowthistle, hare's lettuce, colewort, milk thistle |
Unknown |
Sonchus sp. |
|
Disturbed areas |
Stellaria media |
chickweed, common chickweed, starwort, starweed, winter weed |
Unknown |
Tagetes minuta |
wild marigold, stinking Roger, Mexican marigold, stinkweed, tall khakiweed |
Disturbed areas |
Taraxacum officinale |
common dandelion, English dandelion, dandelion, little marsh dandelion, bog dandelion, lesser dandelion, tarassaco, Diente de león, lion's tooth, blowball, cankerwort, door head clock, milk witch, puffball, witch's gowan, yellow gowan |
Disturbed areas |
Verbena bonariensis |
tall vervain, Argentine vervain, cluster flowered vervain, verbena, purpletop vervain, wild verbena, purple top, purple top verbena |
Disturbed areas |
Verbena brasiliensis |
Brazilian vervain |
Disturbed areas |
Zinnia peruviana |
Peruvian zinnia, red spiderzinnia, redstar zinnia, wild zinnia |
Disturbed areas |
Potential Minor Problem Species |
Acacia baileyana |
Bailey's wattle |
Invasive |
Acacia elata |
Peppertree wattle, mountain cedar wattle |
Invasive |
Acacia longifolia |
Sydney golden wattle, long leaved wattle, langblaarwattel, sallow wattle, Port Jackson acacia |
Invasive |
Acacia podalyriifolia |
Pearl acacia |
Invasive |
Aleurites moluccana |
candlenut, Indian walnut |
Unknown |
Ambrosia artemisiifolia |
common ragweed, ragweed, wild tansy, hog weed, bitterweed, mayweed, hay fever weed, black weed |
Disturbed areas |
Anredera baselloides |
|
Unknown |
Anredera cordifolia |
Madeira vine, heartleaf madeiravine, mignonette vine, lamb's tail |
Invasive |
Boerhavia coccinea var. coccinea |
boerhavia, hog weed, hog feed, patagon, scarlet spiderling |
Unknown |
Boerhavia diffusa var. acuta |
|
Unknown |
Boerhavia diffusa var. diffusa |
tar vine, spreading hogweed, sow weed, creeping spiderling, red spiderling, spiderling |
Unknown |
Boerhavia erecta |
erect spiderling, spindlepod, erect boerhavia, upright spiderling |
Unknown |
Bryophyllum delagoense |
|
Invasive |
Bulbostylis barbata |
|
Unknown |
Cassytha filiformis |
false dodder, dodder |
Unknown |
Cereus jamacaru |
queen of the night |
Invasive |
Chenopodium opulifolium var. opulifolium |
seaport goosefoot |
Disturbed areas |
Ciclospermum leptophyllum |
marsh parsley |
Disturbed areas |
Cleome gynandra |
spiderflower, spiderwisp, wild spiderflower, African cabbage |
Unknown |
Cleome hassleriana |
spiderplant, spiderflower, pink queen |
Unknown |
Cocculus hirsutus |
|
Unknown |
Commelina benghalensis |
wandering jew, mickey mouse, dayflower, hairy wandering jew, tropical spiderwort, Benghal commelina |
Unknown |
Crepis hypochaeridea |
|
Unknown |
Cyanthillium cinereum var. cinereum |
little ironweed |
Unknown |
Cyperus cyperoides subsp. cyperoides |
Pacific island flatsedge |
Unknown |
Desmodium sp. |
|
Unknown |
Erigeron karvinskianus |
Mexican daisy, seaside daisy, Latin American fleabane, Santa Barbara daisy, fleabane |
Unknown |
Erythrina abyssinica |
erythrina |
Unknown |
Erythrina crista-galli |
crybaby tree |
Unknown |
Ethulia conyzoides subsp. conyzoides |
|
Unknown |
Ethulia sp. |
|
Unknown |
Euphorbia prostrata |
hairy creeping milkweed, prostrate sandmat |
Unknown |
Euphorbia pulcherrima |
Poinsettia |
Unknown |
Fuirena pubescens var. pubescens |
|
Unknown |
Gomphrena celosioides |
bachelor's button, globe amaranth, prostrate globe amaranth, soft khakiweed, white eye |
Unknown |
Guilleminea densa |
carrot weed, small matweed |
Unknown |
Hybanthus enneaspermus var. caffer |
|
Unknown |
Hybanthus enneaspermus var. enneaspermus |
pink ladies slipper |
Unknown |
Hyptis pectinata |
comb bushmint, mint weed, purple top |
Unknown |
Hyptis sp. |
|
Unknown |
Hyptis spicigera |
|
Unknown |
Jatropha curcas |
physic nut, Barbados nut, curcas bean, purge nut, purging nut |
Unknown |
Kalanchoe pinnata |
cathedral bells |
Unknown |
Lablab purpureus subsp. purpureus |
hyacinth bean, lablab, Egyptian kidney bean |
Unknown |
Lantana montevidensis |
|
Invasive |
Lepidium bonariense |
birdseed, peppercress, pepperweed, Argentine pepperweed, Argentiinankrassi, Argentine cress |
Unknown |
Ligustrum ovalifolium |
|
Unknown |
Ludwigia polycarpaea |
|
Unknown |
Macadamia sp. |
|
Unknown |
Macadamia ternifolia |
Macadamia nut |
Unknown |
Malvastrum coromandelianum |
prickly malvastrum, threelobe false mallow |
Unknown |
Manihot esculenta |
|
Unknown |
Melanthera scandens subsp. dregei |
|
Unknown |
Mollugo nudicaulis |
nakedstem carpetweed |
Unknown |
Pastinaca sativa |
wild parsnip |
Unknown |
Pennisetum setaceum |
fountain grass |
Invasive |
Pereskia aculeata |
|
Invasive |
Persicaria lapathifolia |
curlytop knotweed |
Unknown |
Phyla nodiflora var. nodiflora |
lippia, fogfruit, carpet weed, mat-grass |
Unknown |
Phyla nodiflora var. rosea |
Garden lippia |
Unknown |
Phyllanthus fraternus |
gulf leaf flower |
Unknown |
Phytolacca octandra |
eightstamen pokeweed, red inkplant, dyeberry, inkweed, forest inkberry, inkberry, phytolacca |
Unknown |
Pittosporum crassifolium |
Karo |
Unknown |
Polycarpaea corymbosa var. corymbosa |
old man's cap |
Unknown |
Polygonum aviculare |
wireweed, prostrate knotweed |
Unknown |
Polypogon viridis |
water bent grass, water bent, beardless rabbitsfoot grass |
Unknown |
Portulaca oleracea |
purselane, wild protulaca, pussley, pursley, duckweed, little hogweed, pigweed |
Unknown |
Pupalia lappacea var. lappacea |
sweet hearts, mamata, sawnee |
Unknown |
Pycnostachys urticifolia |
Large hedgehog-flower, Prickly salvia |
Unknown |
Rumex crispus |
curly dock |
Unknown |
Rumex nervosus var. usamarensis |
|
Unknown |
Salix alba subsp. x S. fragilis |
white willow, willow |
Unknown |
Salvia coccinea |
Texas sage, red salvia, scarlet salvia, South American sage, Texas salvia, crimson sage, blood sage, tropical sage |
Disturbed areas |
Schkuhria pinnata |
dwarf marigold, schkuhria, starry skies, mata pulgas, pinnate false threadleaf, dwarf Mexican marigold, khakibush, yellow tumbleweed |
Unknown |
Senna bicapsularis |
|
Invasive |
Senna italica subsp. arachoides |
|
Invasive |
Senna italica subsp. italica? |
|
Unknown |
Senna multijuga |
false sicklepod |
Unknown |
Sherardia arvensis |
blue fieldmadder |
Unknown |
Sorghum halepense |
Johnson grass, St Mary's grass, aleppo grass, Egyptian millet, false guineagrass, Cuba grass, Syria grass, evergreen millet, maidencane, meansgrass |
Invasive |
Spathodea campanulata |
African tulip tree, fireball |
Unknown |
Taraxacum sp. |
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Unknown |
Tephrosia purpurea subsp. purpurea |
Fish Poison, Tephrosia, Wild Indigo |
Unknown |
Tradescantia fluminensis |
white flowered wandering jew, wandering jew, smallleaf spiderwort, spiderwort |
Unknown |
Tradescantia pallida |
purple heart |
Unknown |
Tridax procumbens |
tridax daisy, tridax, coat buttons, Mexican daisy |
Unknown |
Ulmus parvifolia |
Chinese elm |
Invasive |
Urtica urens |
small nettle,small stinging nettle |
Unknown |
Verbena aristigera |
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Disturbed areas |
Verbena rigida |
stiff verbena, tuber vervain |
Disturbed areas |
Verbena sp. |
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Disturbed areas |
Verbena venosa |
veined verbena |
Disturbed areas |
Status Unknown |
Azolla filiculoides |
Red water fern |
Invasive |
Delonix regia |
flame tree, flamboyant, poinciana |
Invasive |
Egeria densa |
Dense water weed |
Invasive |
Eichhornia crassipes |
Water hyacinth |
Invasive |
Elodea canadensis |
Canadian water weed |
Invasive |
Fragaria vesca |
woodland strawberry |
Invasive |
Myriophyllum spicatum |
Spiked water-milfoil |
Invasive |
Persicaria capitata |
pink knotweed, pinkhead smartweed |
Invasive |
Pistia stratiotes |
Water lettuce |
Invasive |
Psidium cattleianum |
strawberry guava |
Invasive |
Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum |
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Invasive |
Salvinia molesta |
water fern, kariba weed |
Invasive |
Schefflera sp. |
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Invasive |
Senna sp. |
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Invasive |
Syzygium paniculatum |
Australian Brush Cherry |
Invasive |
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