Scintilla's Plant Database - Invasives/Threats Not Listed
The following is a list of plants that are known to be invasive or potentially so in New Jersey
(listed on the New Jersey
Do Not Plant List)
and/or nearby states and that have therefore been deliberately omitted from this database.
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Acer buergerianum (trident maple)
Acer ginnala (Amur maple)
Acer palmatum (Japanese maple)
Acer platanoides (Norway maple)
Actinidia arguta (hardy kiwi)
Aesculus hippocastanum (common horsechestnut)
Ailanthus altissima (tree of heaven)
Akebia quinata (chocolate vine, five-leaved akebia)
Albizzia julibrissin (mimosa)
Alnus glutinosa (European black alder)
Ampelopsis brevipedunculata (porcelainberry)
Aralia elata (Japanese angelica tree)
Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry)
Berberis vulgaris (common/European barberry)
Betula pendula (European birch)
Broussonetia papyrifera (paper mulberry)
Buddleja davidii (butterfly bush)
Celastrus orbiculatus (Oriental bittersweet)
Clematis flammula, C. terniflora
Convallaria majalis (lily of the valley)
Cornus kousa (Chinese/kousa dogwood)
Cytisus scoparius (Scotch broom)
Deutzia scabra (fuzzy pride-of-Rochester)
Eleagnus spp. (Russian olive, etc.)
Eleutherococcus sieboldianus (five-leaf aralia)
Euonymus alatus (burning bush)
Euonymus fortunei (wintercreeper)
Frangula alnus (glossy buckthorn)
Genista tinctoria (Dyer's greenwood)
Hedera helix (English ivy)
Hemerocallis fulva (common daylily)
Hibiscus syriacus (rose of Sharon, shrub althea)
Hippophae rhamnoides (seaberry)
Humulus japonicus (Japanese hops)
Hydrangea paniculata (panicle/P.G. hydrangea)
Ilex aquifolium (English holly)
Ilex cornuta (Chinese holly)
Ilex crenata (Japanese holly)
Kalopanax septemlobus (castor aralia)
Koelreuteria spp. (golden rain tree)
Kolkwitzia amabilis (beautybush)
Lamium maculatum (deadnettle)
Lespedeza spp. (bush clover)
Ligustrum spp. (privet)
Liriope spp. (lilyturf)
Lonicera non-native spp. (honeysuckles)
Magnolia kobus (Kobus magnolia)
Mahonia bealei (leatherleaf mahonia)
Malus spp. (crabapples)
Miscanthus spp. (maiden grass, silver grass)
Morus alba (white mulberry)
Nandina domestica (sacred bamboo)
Osmanthus heterophyllus (false holly osmanthus)
Pachysandra terminalis (Japanese spurge)
Parthenocissus tricuspidata (Boston ivy)
Paulownia tomentosa (empress tree, princess tree)
Pennisetum spp. (fountain grass)
Phellodendron amurense (Amur corktree)
Philadelphus non-native spp. (mockorange)
Photinia villosa (Oriental photinia)
Phyllostachys spp. (bamboo)
Picea abies (Norway spruce)
Pinus sylvestris (Scots pine)
Pinus thunbergii (Japanese black pine)
Populus alba (white poplar)
Poncirus trifoliata (hardy orange)
Prunus avium (sweet/Mazzard cherry)
Prunus subhirtella (Higan cherry)
Pseudosasa spp. (bamboo)
Pyracantha spp. (firethorn)
Pyrus calleryana (flowering/Callery pear)
Quercus acutissima (sawtooth oak)
Rhamnus cathartica (common/European buckthorn)
Rhodotypos scandens (jetbead)
Robinia pseudoacacia (black locust)
Rosa eglanteria/rubiginosa (sweet briar)
Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose)
Rosa rugosa (rugosa rose)
Salix alba (white willow, golden weeping willow)
Salix babylonica (weeping willow)
Salix caprea (French pussy willow, goat willow)
Salix cinerea (large grey willow)
Salix matsudana (Chinese willow)
Salix purpurea (purpleosier willow)
Salix × sepulcralis (weeping willow)
Spiraea japonica (Japanese spiraea)
Styphnolobium japonicum (pagoda tree, scholar tree)
Styrax japonicus (Japanese snowbell)
Symplocos paniculata (sapphire berry)
Taxus cuspidata (Japanese yew)
Tetradium daniellii (Korean evodia, bee bee tree)
Thymus praecox (creeping thyme)
Ulmus parvifolia (Chinese elm)
Ulmus procera (English elm)
Ulmus pumila (Siberian elm)
Viburnum dilatatum (linden viburnum)
Viburnum lantana (wayfaringtree)
Viburnum opulus (Guelder-rose, European cranberrybush viburnum)
Viburnum plicatum f. tomentosum (doublefile viburnum)
Viburnum setigerum (tea viburnum)
Viburnum sieboldii (Siebold's arrowwood)
Vinca spp. (periwinkle)
Wisteria floribunda, W. sinensis (foreign wisterias)
Zelkova serrata (Japanese zelkova)
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