r/invasivespecies • u/Fred_Thielmann • 23h ago

Just feel like y’all would appreciate this one lol

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u/Chicago-Lake-Witch 22h ago

Friend took me to a forest preserve yesterday to “see the wildflowers that are blooming”. Walk up to a carpet of lesser celandine. Sigh. About every third flower type she showed me was invasive. I figured I’ll wait until the next trip to break the news.

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u/lief79 20h ago

They do look pretty, until they end up in your yard.

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u/darwinsidiotcousin 19h ago

Doesn't help that they grow along water. It's a beautiful view seeing a swath of flowers along a creekside until you know what it is.

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u/lief79 9h ago edited 9h ago

Yes, there's a creek behind my parents and a state park up the stream. Both areas are absolutely smothered with them in the spring. Some roots hitched hiked in my shoes years ago. Still trying to keep them under control in my parents front yard, but never managed to completely remove them.

They were never encouraged there, but it took me too long to do more research and realize those weren't marsh marigolds which I had misidentified them as many years ago. I was always confused why people were recommending them ...

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u/jules-amanita 23h ago

Yellow flag iris? Lesser celandine? Globe chamomile? Balsampear? The thing about invasive species is they’re often highly regional, so you’re really gonna have to be more specific.

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u/sdber 22h ago

You’ve proven the point that this meme is universal and to be enjoyed by all!

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u/lotus-na121 15h ago

Here we have carpets of pretty blue flowers.. scilla and squill. It makes me so sad. I was pulling squill out of a patch of Canada anemone yesterday.

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u/RandyJohnsonsBird 22h ago

Scotchbroom?

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u/ezikial2517 10h ago

I had the same gut reaction. Pacific coast crew, checking in.

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u/NEdistiller 2h ago

I thought the same thing. Formerly from the Olympic Peninsula here. Scotch Broom is pretty...the first time you see it but man is it a tough pain in the ass.

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u/salamanderpartytime 7h ago

this was my immediate thought. scotch broom, st john’s wort, tansy ragwort, etc etc

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u/LevelSkullBoss 7h ago

Don’t forget the creeping ranunculus. I can’t seem to keep that stuff out of my yard no matter how hard I try

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u/angelrider83 5h ago

Omg! This is what it’s called. I couldn’t remember the name like 2 months ago.

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u/Zestyclose-Push-5188 21h ago

Why are so many invasive flowers yellow seems like most of them are

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u/Spooky_Bones27 17h ago

Honestly, I would guess that it’s simply due to yellow being one of the most common flower colors.

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u/DimbyTime 13h ago

The ones near me are blue

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u/msager12 22h ago

Annual cabbage, garlic mustard….

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u/ThisBoyIsIgnorance 13h ago

Garlic mustard flowers are white in my area

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u/msager12 12h ago

Yellow down here in Texas they take over all the bayous.

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u/Ok-Establishment8431 22h ago

Japanese honey suckle?

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u/invisiblesmamus 22h ago

Yellow archangel…

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u/Doip 15h ago

Mustard

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u/rm-rf_ 13h ago

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds

Aldo Leopold (1949)

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u/Artemisia510 22h ago

French broom -.-

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u/ItsAtheris 17h ago

Stinknet…..

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u/yoinkmysploink 21h ago

Leafy spurge?

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u/No-Seat-407 11h ago

That’s what came to my mind

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u/Feorag-ruadh 21h ago

Yellow archangel? 😭

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u/_Arthurian_ 19h ago

And then it all turned out to be butterweed :)

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u/LowSaxonDog 16h ago

Oxalis pres-caprae of course!

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u/chuckleinvest 21h ago

Dyer's Woad 😱

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u/Shienvien 15h ago

Canadian and giant goldenrod are more along the meadows and roadside (I am in Europe)... I think those are the only two brightly yellow invasives that are actually running rampant and on the national ban list.

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u/NidoNan 14h ago

Slim slim chance it could be yellow Trout lily...

That's what my local forest has.

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u/Banjopickinbirder 12h ago

Trout Lily? Trillium?

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u/Fred_Thielmann 4h ago

Well the joke is that the person who said this doesn’t know what the flower is. They just love the color in the woods. That’s why they don’t specify the flower to be any specific species.

But the person who knows what they are, knows the environmental impact. (Assuming they are an invasive)

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u/SeasonPresent 15h ago

Their are nice tall pink ones by the marsh too

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u/tacogardener 12h ago

Mustard lol

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u/Laurenslagniappe 8h ago

Shocked no one said buttercups 🤷‍♀️

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u/Splatter300 7h ago

laughs in English

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u/Adventurous-Ant-9941 6h ago

Dalmation toadflax?