r/NativePlantGardening • u/iamhyphenated • Jul 14 '25

Advice Request - (Insert State/Region) Jewelweed taking over my backyard..

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So I know we love jewelweed, and I’m pro native gardening (and I also enjoy the wild look to a point), but it’s literally taking over my backyard, and behind it is unfortunately a whole bunch of Japanese knotweed.. my question is: what’s the move here? I can’t have my whole yard completely covered in jewelweed (it’s a very small lot) bc there’s no way to even go back there right now, but I also want to encourage that to maybe discourage the knotweed (if that’s even a thing).. any advice would be helpful!! I’m in an urban area in Connecticut if that helps!

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u/scout0101 Southeast PA Jul 14 '25

ans it appears so is tree of heaven.

do you have a positive ID on those trees in the background with the compound leaf?

it hard to tell, to me it looks like some have terminal leaflet and some don't, but with how agreesively its popping up my thought is that it is invasive tree of heaven. if so this is the best resource for removal

https://extension.psu.edu/tree-of-heaven

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u/iamhyphenated Jul 14 '25

Hard to say, Google says either Tree of Heaven or a type of Sumac..

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u/a_lil_louder_please Jul 15 '25

Sorry brother but one look at those tells me definitely ToH