Status of Invasive Plants in North Dakota
Total number of exotic species reported: 199
Total number of records in EDDMapS: 9587
Invasive Plants by Category
- Aquatic - 3 species, 40 records
- Forbs/Herbs - 128 species, 5097 records
- Grass or Grasslike - 36 species, 1151 records
- Hardwood Trees - 12 species, 288 records
- Shrub or Subshrub - 5 species, 597 records
- Vines - 8 species, 446 records
Top Ten Abundant Invasive Plants (by number of reports)
- leafy spurge - 529 reports
- Canada thistle - 495 reports
- absinth wormwood - 485 reports
- field bindweed - 301 reports
- musk thistle - 196 reports
- purple loosestrife - 170 reports
- spotted knapweed - 165 reports
- Russian knapweed - 136 reports
- perennial sowthistle - 110 reports
- yellow toadflax - 101 reports
Top Ten Widespread Invasive Plants (by number of positive counties)
- Canada thistle - 53/53 (100%)
- musk thistle - 53/53 (100%)
- leafy spurge - 53/53 (100%)
- absinth wormwood - 53/53 (100%)
- perennial sowthistle - 51/53 (96%)
- field bindweed - 50/53 (94%)
- quackgrass - 49/53 (92%)
- flixweed - 47/53 (89%)
- green foxtail - 47/53 (89%)
- green bristlegrass - 47/53 (89%)
Counties with the most invasive species reported
- Cass County - 195 species
- Barnes County - 153 species
- Richland County - 146 species
- Stutsman County - 132 species
- Ransom County - 128 species
- Pembina County - 125 species
- Billings County - 124 species
- Grand Forks County - 120 species
- Stark County - 113 species
- Bottineau County - 112 species
Counties with the least invasive species reported
- Adams County - 21 species
- Towner County - 35 species
- Renville County - 39 species
- Foster County - 40 species
- Hettinger County - 41 species
- Sioux County - 42 species
- Wells County - 46 species
- Traill County - 49 species
- Pierce County - 54 species
- Eddy County - 58 species
Report created on May 21, 2013 at 06:55 AM
by the UGA Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health using EDDMapS Technology and Data.
