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Upcoming Event! October 1, 2008: 8 am – 4 pm You are invited to join the Connecticut Invasive Plant Working Group Symposium entitled Cherish Our Natural Heritage: Managing Invasives to Promote Native Diversity. For more information about this event, click here.

Invasive species damage the lands and waters that native plants and animals need to survive. They hurt economies and threaten human well-being. The estimated damage from invasive species worldwide totals more than $1.4 trillion – five percent of the global economy.

The Nature Conservancy is working to prevent and control the spread of invasive species in all 50 states and across more than 30 countries around the world. Learn more about the Conservancy's invasive species initiative here.

Click on each of the pictures below to learn what you can do to fight invasive plants and preserve the species native to Connecticut. 
 

Invasive Plants in Connecticut
Bush Honeysuckles	Common Buckthorn
Common Reed	Garlic Mustard
Glossy Buckthorn	Japanese Barberry
Japanese Honeysuckle	Japanese Knotweed
Japanese Stilt Grass	Multiflora Rose
Purple Loosestrife	Asiatic Bittersweet

Nature picture credits (top to bottom, left to right): Photo © Tom Heutte, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org (Japanese knotweed); © James H. Miller, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org (Oriental bittersweet).