Plants are essential to everyone's lives. Welcome to Plantlife.
Invasive plants causing problems in the UK
-Crow.jpg)
Himalayan knotweed - one of the species Plantlife believes is causing problems in the UK. © Crown Copyright 2009. GBNNSS.
Below are listed around half of the plants that Plantlife consider to be invasive in Britain at the moment.
Click on each for full details.
- Cotoneaster species
Cotoneaster - Curly Waterweed
Lagarosiphon major (AKA Elodea densa) - Evergreen oak (holm oak)
Quercus ilex - False-acacia
Robinia pseudoacacia - Floating pennywort
Hydrocotyle ranunculoides - Giant hogweed
Heracleum mantegazzianum - Himalayan knotweed
Persicaria wallichii - Indian (Himalayan) balsam
Impatiens glandulifera - Japanese knotweed
Fallopia japonica - Large-flowered waterweed
Egeria densa - New Zealand pigmyweed (Australian swamp-stonecrop)
Crassula helmsii - Parrot’s-feather
Myriophyllum aquaticum - Pickerel weed
Pontederia cordata - Pirri-pirri-bur
Acaena novae-zelandiae - Rhododendron
Rhododendron ponticum - Shallon
Gaultheria shallon - Skunk-cabbage (Asian and American)
Lysichiton americanus and Lysichiton camtschatcensis - Tree of heaven
Ailanthus altissima - Turkey oak
Quercus cerris - Water primroses
Ludwigia grandiflora, Ludwigia peploides, Ludwigia uruguayensis
For a full list of plants about which we are concerned, download the PDF ‘Invasive plants and the law’ by clicking here.