Invasive Plant Management Plans

Table of Contents (alphabetical)

by common name by scientific name
Air potato
Asparagus fern
Brazilian pepper-tree
Caesar’s weed
Calico flower
Camphor tree
Cat’s-claw vine
Chinaberry
Chinese ladder brake fern
Chinese tallow
Chinese wisteria
Cogongrass
Coral ardisia
Coral vine
Creeping oxeye
Elephant ear
Glossy privet
Golden bamboo
Golden rain tree
Japanese climbing fern
Japanese honeysuckle
Kudzu
Lantana
Lead tree
Mexican-petunia
Mimosa tree
Nandina
Natal grass
Nightshade spp.
Old World climbing fern
Paper mulberry
Paragrass
Puncture vine
Spanish gold, rattlebox
Rosary pea
Silverthorn
Skunk vine
Small-leaf spiderwort
Torpedograss
*Tropical soda apple
Tuberous sword fern
Tung oil tree
Wax begonia
Wild taro
Abrus precatorius
Aleurites fordii syn. Vernicia fordii
Albizia julibrissin
Antigonon leptopus
Ardisia crenata
Aristolochia littoralis syn. A. elegans
Asparagus densiflorus syn. A. sprengeri
Begonia cucullata
Brachiaria mutica
Broussonetia papyrifera
Cinnamomum camphora
Colocasia esculenta
Dioscorea bulbifera
Dolichandra unguis-cati
Elaeagnus pungens
Imperata cylindrica
Koelreuteria elegans
Lantana camara
Leucaena leucocephala
Ligustrum spp.
Lonicera japonica
Lygodium japonicum
Lygodium microphyllum
Melia azedarach
Nandina domestica
Nephrolepis cordifolia
Paederia foetida
Panicum repens
Phyllostachys aurea
Pteris vittata
Pueraria montana
Rhynchelytrum repens syn. Melinis repens
Ruellia simplex
Schinus terebinthifolia
Sesbania punicea
Solanum spp
*Solanum viarum
Tradescantia fluminensis
Triadica sebifera syn. Sapium sebiferum
Tribulus cistoides
Urena lobata
Wedelia trilobata syn. Sphagneticola trilobata
Wisteria spp.
Xanthosoma sagittifolium

Unless otherwise indicated, the above management plans were formatted for the web from:

Site Weed (Invasive Plant) Management Plan
Submitted to: Florida Department of Environmental Protection; Florida Greenways and Trails – 2004
Originally submitted as three management plans.

Excerpted from
University of Florida, IFAS Extension, Circular 1529, Invasive Species Management Plans for Florida, 2008 by
Greg MacDonald, Associate Professor Jay Ferrell, Assistant Professor and Extension Weed Specialist
Brent Sellers, Assistant Professor and Extension Weed Specialist
Ken Langeland, Professor and Extension Weed Specialist Agronomy Department, Gainesville and Range Cattle REC, Ona
Tina Duperron-Bond, DPM – Osceola County
Eileen Ketterer-Guest, former Graduate Research Assistant


*Tropical Soda Apple Management Plan
January 2012
Edited by: Julio Medal, William Overholt, Raghavan Charudattan, Jeff Mullahey, Richard Gaskalla, Rodrigo Díaz, James Cuda
University of Florida-IFAS. Gainesville, Florida, USA
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services-DPI