Status of Invasive Plants in South Dakota
Total number of exotic species reported: 212
Total number of records in EDDMapS: 5717
Invasive Plants by Category
- Aquatic - 3 species, 37 records
- Forbs/Herbs - 134 species, 2518 records
- Grass or Grasslike - 38 species, 835 records
- Hardwood Trees - 13 species, 142 records
- Shrub or Subshrub - 6 species, 83 records
- Vines - 10 species, 226 records
Top Ten Abundant Invasive Plants (by number of reports)
- Canada thistle - 231 reports
- leafy spurge - 123 reports
- field bindweed - 94 reports
- musk thistle - 87 reports
- crested wheatgrass - 86 reports
- curly dock - 84 reports
- bull thistle - 77 reports
- wild buckwheat - 76 reports
- flixweed - 74 reports
- reed canarygrass - 71 reports
Top Ten Widespread Invasive Plants (by number of positive counties)
- bull thistle - 66/66 (100%)
- field bindweed - 64/66 (97%)
- Russian knapweed - 64/66 (97%)
- leafy spurge - 63/66 (95%)
- musk thistle - 61/66 (92%)
- curly dock - 46/66 (70%)
- curly dock - 46/66 (70%)
- crested wheatgrass - 43/66 (65%)
- narrowleaf dock - 40/66 (61%)
- reed canarygrass - 39/66 (59%)
Counties with the most invasive species reported
- Pennington County - 185 species
- Lawrence County - 142 species
- Clay County - 139 species
- Custer County - 137 species
- Union County - 135 species
- Fall River County - 112 species
- Codington County - 101 species
- Lincoln County - 93 species
- Brookings County - 91 species
- Jackson County - 87 species
Counties with the least invasive species reported
- Haakon County - 15 species
- Miner County - 17 species
- Sully County - 18 species
- Edmunds County - 19 species
- Ziebach County - 20 species
- Clark County - 21 species
- Potter County - 23 species
- Jerauld County - 23 species
- Jones County - 23 species
- McCook County - 24 species
Report created on May 21, 2013 at 12:48 PM
by the UGA Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health using EDDMapS Technology and Data.
