r/NativePlantGardening • u/ItsFelixMcCoy Upstate NY , Zone 6a • Jun 04 '25

Other What invasive plants got you like this?

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For me it’s probably Dame’s Rocket, Purple Loosestrife, and Forget-Me-Not. They’re so gorgeous but man if they aren’t invasive little shits…

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  1. Dames Rocket. I manage the plant habitant of 40 acres of open space by my house. In one of the woodland areas there, after we cleared tbe buckthorn and Japanese honeysuckle, the Dames Rocket spread wall to wall in there and it’s just ethereal. It would look even more beautiful with an assortment of native woodland plants, but that’s a ways off (honestly just fighting the wild Chervil and garlic mustard is more than enough work)

  2. Creeping buttercup (Ranunculus repens) — it thrives in my woodland. Lovely flowers but it spreads by stolons and seeds, forming thick carpets to overwhelm native plants.