Promoting alternatives to invasive landscape plants

Each year Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, the Southeast Exotic Pest Plant Council and the Environmental Resource Management Center at Northern Kentucky University publishes a poster of those plants that have proven to be invasive of our native habitats.  These introduced plants are out-competing our native species resulting in a reduction of plant diversity.  We urge everyone to be on the lookout for these plants and avoid planting them in your yards.  Instead, we offer similar native plants that can and do provide similar enhancements to your environment.