Garlic Mustard
According to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, garlic mustard is a biennial herb with a garlic-like odor. The plant goes through a series of stages where, in the first year, a rosette of...
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Multiflora Rose
According to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, multiflora rose is a thorny shrub with arching stems and compound leaves divided into five to 11 sharply toothed leaflets. Each leaf stalk’s base bears a...
Reed Canary Grass
According to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, reed canary grass is a large, coarse grass that grows from two to seven feet tall. The erect, hairless stem leads to rough-textured, tapering leaves of...
Common Reed
According to Ohio Department of Natural Resources, common reed is a tall, perennial wetland grass that grows from five to ten feet tall. It forms a dense network of rhizomes with deep roots and...
Purple Loosestrife
According to Ohio Department of Natural Resources, purple loosestrife is an erect perennial with opposite leaves and magenta-colored flowers. The thicktaproot supports thirty to fifty stems that grows from three to six feet. Leaves...
Common Buckthorn
According to Ohio Department of Natural Resources, common buckthorn is a woody shrub or small tree that can reach 20 feet tall. The cut stem are yellow sapwood and pink to orange heartwood. Common...
Glossy Buckthorn
According to Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Glossy buckthorn is a woody shrub or small tree that can reach 20 feet tall. The cut stem are yellow sapwood and pink to orange heartwood. It...
Autumn-Olive
According to Ohio Department of Natural Resources, autumn-olive is a deciduous shrub or small tree that can grow to 30 feet tall. Stems, buds and leaves have a dense covering of scales, and its...
Japanese Knotweed
According to Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Japanese knotweed is an upright, shrub-like, herbaceous perennial with the ability to grow to over 10 feet tall. The stout, hollow stems are reddish brown with swollen...
Morrow’s Honeysuckle
According to Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Morrow’s honeysuckle is an upright, deciduous shrub that ranges from six to 15 feet in height at maturity. Older stems have hollow pith. Morrow’s honeysuckle has oval...