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African bridal creeper

Non-native Plants of the Elfin Forest

  Scientific Name Common Name Image Notes
  Anagallis arvensis ● Scarlet pimpernel 📷
  Asparagus asparagoides ●● African asparagus fern Very invasive in oak groves.
  Avena barbata ● Slender wild oats 📷
  Avena fatua ● Common wild oats 📷
  Brachypodium distachyon ●● False brome 📷
  Brassica spp ● & ●● Mustards
  Bromus diandrus ●● Ripgut brome 📷
  Bromus hordeaceus ● Soft chess brome 📷
  Bromus madritensis ssp. rubens ●● Red brome 📷
  Bromus tectorum ●● Cheat grass 📷
  Cardaria draba ●● Hoary cress 📷
  Carduus pycnocephalus ●● Italian thistle 📷
  Carpobrotus chilensis ● Sea fig 📷
  Carpobrotus edulis ●● Hottentot fig 📷
  Centaurea melitensis ●● Tocalote 📷
  Cerastium glomeratum ● Mouse-ear chickweed 📷
  Chamomilla suaveolens ● Pineapple weed 📷
  Chenopodium album ● Lamb’s quarters 📷
  Cirsium vulgare ●● Bull thistle 📷
  Conicosia pugioniformis ●● Narrow-leaved iceplant 📷
  Cotula coronopifolia ● Brass buttons 📷
  Cynodon dactylon ● Bermuda grass 📷
  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 📷
  Erodium cicutarium ● Red-stem filaree 📷
  Euphorbia peplus ● Petty spurge 📷
  Festuca arundinacea ● Tall fescue 📷
  Festuca pratensis ● Meadow fescue 📷
  Foeniculum vulgare ●● Fennel 📷
  Geranium dissectum ● Cut-leaf geranium 📷
  Hedera helix ●● English ivy 📷 Very invasive plant
  Hirschfeldia incana ● Perennial mustard 📷
  Hordeum murinum ● Foxtail barley 📷
  Hypochaeris glabra ● Smooth cat's ear 📷
  Lamarckia aurea ● Goldentop 📷 Flower golden to purplish
  Lobularia maritima ● Sweet alyssum 📷
  Lolium perenne ● Perennial ryegrass 📷
  Lotus corniculatus ● Birdfoot trefoil 📷
  Malva parviflora ● Cheeseweed 📷
  Medicago polymorpha ● Burclover 📷
  Melilotus alba ● White sweet-clover 📷
  Melilotus indica ● Yellow sweet-clover 📷
  Mesembryanthemum crystallinum ●● Crystalline iceplant 📷
  Plantago lanceolata ● English plantain 📷
  Polygonum arenastrum ● Common knotweed 📷
  Raphanus sativus ● Wild radish 📷
  Rumex acetosella ● Sour-dock 📷
  Rumex crispus ● Curly dock 📷
  Schismus arabicus ● Mediterranean grass 📷
  Setaria viridis ● Green bristlegrass 📷
  Silene gallica ● Windmill pink 📷
  Sonchus asper ● Prickly sow thistle 📷
  Sonchus oleraceus ● Common sow thistle 📷
  Sorghum halepense ● Johnsongrass 📷
  Urtica urens ● Dwarf nettle 📷
  Vulpia myuros ● Rattail fescue 📷
 
  ● = non-native species
●● = invasive non-native species which has the
potential to negatively impact
the native species of the Elfin Forest.