
{"id":11397,"date":"2010-07-08T09:18:27","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T17:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=11397"},"modified":"2010-07-08T11:44:23","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T19:44:23","slug":"carrboro-updates-invasive-plants-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/07\/08\/carrboro-updates-invasive-plants-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrboro updates invasive plants list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ivyB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ivyB.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ivyB\" width=\"350\" height=\"467\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ivyB.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ivyB-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ivyB-84x113.jpg 84w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ivyB-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ivyB-59x80.jpg 59w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>By Kirk Ross, Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>English ivy? No. Chinese privet? Definitely not. Mimosa? Lovely in blossom, perhaps, but insidious. The same goes for bush honeysuckle and Chinese wisteria.<\/p>\n<p>These are the species at the top of Carrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new list of invasive plants, which was formally adopted last month.<br \/>\nThe list comes from a recommendation by the town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Environmental Advisory Board and represents legwork on the part of landscaper and board member Matthew Arnsberger.<\/p>\n<p>The town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s old list, tucked away in an annex of the town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s land-use plan, had a lot of serious flaws, Arnsberger said, not the least of which was that it was based on a list drawn up in New York and wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t based on realities in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was arbitrary and unscientific,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Arnsberger said. Several plants on the old list may be causing problems in New England, he said, but not here.<\/p>\n<p>The new list, he said, comes from a list published by the N.C. Native Plant Society based on the work of Misty Buchanan, a botanist with the N.C. Natural Heritage Program and a resident of Orange County.<\/p>\n<p>Buchanan said that list is based on a system developed in Tennessee that ranks plants according to their threat to native species. One big advantage of the new system, she said, is that the Native Plant Society receives feedback on the list and keeps it updated.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The idea was to adopt a process rather than just have a static list,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Buchanan said.<\/p>\n<p>The five species listed above are classified as severe threats, the top threat level. Their inclusion into the town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s zoning code means that they can not be included in any plans submitted by developers.<\/p>\n<p>Arnsberger said the idea of having the list isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t about telling people what they can and can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t plant, but to make sure that the plants aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t introduced as a result of new projects.<\/p>\n<p>Common names for other species in the severe-threat category are Tree of Heaven, Garlic-mustard, Alligatorweed, Asian bittersweet, Russian olive, Autumn olive, Bicolor lespedeza, Sericea lespedeza, Fragrant honeysuckle, Japanese honeysuckle, Japanese stilt-grass, Asian spiderwort, Parrotfeather, Princess tree, Common reed, Japanese knotweed, Kudzu, Multiflora rose, Aquarium water-moss and Beach vitex.<\/p>\n<p>The society\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s complete list of plants, broken down by their threat level, is at ncwildflower.org\/invasives\/list.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English ivy? No. Chinese privet? Definitely not. Mimosa? Lovely in blossom, perhaps, but insidious. The same goes for bush honeysuckle and Chinese wisteria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":11398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,30],"tags":[235],"class_list":["post-11397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-top-story","tag-carrboro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11397"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11413,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11397\/revisions\/11413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}