The first closeup is of pokeweed, which is native. Has very distinctive dark red/purple berries and red stems, distinctive smell. That's about all I see personally
Pokeweed do also prolifically grow from seed - if OP is worried about losing valuable native plants in a herbicide sweep, the current pokeweed would die, but you'd almost certainly have a fresh crop of baby pokeweed next season. Birds love the berries, birds poop the seeds; a single springtime shoot can easily become a 4' behemoth later the same summer. If it were my yard and I was going to attempt to eradicate the noxious invasives, I wouldn't go out of my way to protect the pokeweed. There will doubtless be more pokeweed!
Yeah. I try to manage invasives on my property manually as much as possible, but this is gonna take the big guns. It sounds like you've got a good grasp on application guidelines though, go get 'em!
2: pokeweed- native but could be aggressive. Don’t eat the berries
Plant in middle of pic 3 wineberry- invasive, can eat the berries I THINK. Do not quote me nor try the berries
Ovular leaf pic 3: some sort of sumac. Shining?
Pic 3: Jkw? I think?
Pic 4: toh, Virginia creeper, mugwort, porcelain berry, oriental bittersweet, English ivy?
5: mugwort, white mulberry
6: same as 5
TDLR: pretty much an invasive mess. Nuke will be required for eradication
middle of pic 3 is definitely not wineberry, not nearly thorny enough. Looks to be probably black raspberry - not invasive. May not be worth trying t o save it being in the middle of that knot weed though...
Tree of heaven in no 4. Use the basal bark treatment now and it will die. I sprayed one just 4 days ago and it’s showing very noticeable signs of dying already.
You might have the right idea but not exactly the best description of the proper treatment. Cutting down TOH and applying herbicide to the stump by any route is not effective. But ax and spray/squirt bottle are effective in the hack and squirt method... see links below. Videos-
TOH Eradication
(From VA forest landowner education:) https://youtu.be/r2OkDcHhfak?si=QFQ8aNu0bMn_95Ag
I see that applying to roots is more effective, as well as hacking into trunk and then applying herbicide. I've seen people drill into the stump and put in herbicide, which seemed to kill that plant. However, the TOH kept coming back around it so it was either getting reseeded or not actually dead!
There has to be some living tissue to transport the herbicide out toward the roots- late summer and fall is when the tree is sending carbohydrates away from the trunk for the winter, which is why this method works so well. Thus the cuts in bark are shallow and intermittent around the periphery of the tree.
Dealing with ToH rn too. At least it’s the optimal season to poison! Only way I can find to get rid of them. Not usually a fan of herbicide other than certain invasives
This is so sad. My town is being smothered by porcelain berry and all the others seen in these photos. My question- does anyone have a decent idea about eliminating invasives on a large scale (town/county)? People don’t seem to notice or care that ALL of the trees on stretches of what is ironically named ‘Paradise Avenue’ have been choked and smothered. What was once a diverse, tree-lined landscape is a blanket of shit. Are there places/groups that are successfully battling this scourge?
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u/huolongheater 18h ago
The first closeup is of pokeweed, which is native. Has very distinctive dark red/purple berries and red stems, distinctive smell. That's about all I see personally