Early Detection Rapid Response

Species Types

Mediterranean Oak Borer on an oak tree. Photo by Christine Buhl.

Mediterranean Oak Borer

(Xyleborus monographus)

Animal / Early Detection Rapid Response / Forest / Invasive
Brown flowerhead of Phragmites with green reeds

Common reed

Phragmites australis ssp. australis

Aquatic/Semiaquatic / Early Detection Rapid Response / Invasive / Plant / Sunny Areas
metallic green insect close-up on ash tree bark

Emerald ash borer

Agrilus planipennis

Animal / Early Detection Rapid Response / Forest / Invasive
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Garlic mustard

Alliaria petiolata

Early Detection Rapid Response / Invasive / Plant / Shaded Forest/Woodland / Sunny Areas
Photo: King County, WA

Policeman’s helmet

Impatiens glandulifera

Early Detection Rapid Response / Invasive / Plant / Shaded Forest/Woodland / Sunny Areas
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Water primrose

Ludwigia peploides

Aquatic/Semiaquatic / Early Detection Rapid Response / Invasive / Plant / Sunny Areas
Photo: USDA

Purple loosestrife

Lythrum salicaria

Aquatic/Semiaquatic / Early Detection Rapid Response / Invasive / Plant / Sunny Areas
white-yellow fuzzy flowers above dense leaves of japanese knotweed

Japanese knotweed

Polygonum cuspidatum

Agricultural / Aquatic/Semiaquatic / Early Detection Rapid Response / Invasive / Plant / Sunny Areas
spurge laurel

Spurge laurel

Daphne laureola

Early Detection Rapid Response / Invasive / Plant / Shaded Forest/Woodland / Toxic
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Orange hawkweed

Hieracium aurantiacum

Early Detection Rapid Response / Invasive / Plant / Shaded Forest/Woodland / Sunny Areas
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Pokeweed

Phytolacca americana

Agricultural / Early Detection Rapid Response / Invasive / Plant / Sunny Areas / Toxic
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False brome

Brachypodium sylvaticum

Early Detection Rapid Response / Invasive / Plant / Shaded Forest/Woodland
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