A Field Guide for the Identification of Invasive Plants in Southern Forest

December 10, 2010

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By: Nancy Loewenstein
School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University

A Field Guide for the Identification of Invasive Plants view here

Authors: Jim Miller, Erwin Chambliss and Nancy Loewenstein

Free copies of A Field Guide for the Identification of Invasive Plants in Southern Forests are now available to foresters, landowners, gardeners and others concerned about nonnative plants in the South. This book is an update of the very popular Nonnative Invasive Plants of Southern Forests: A Field Guide for Identification and Control published in 2003 with nearly 160,000 copies distributed. USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station Research Ecologist Jim Miller co-authored “Invasive Plants in Southern Forests” with SRS Research Technician Erwin Chambliss and Research Fellow and Extension Specialist at Auburn University Nancy Loewenstein.

Invasive Plants in Southern Forests gives users a more comprehensive identification guide to nonnative trees, shrubs, vines, greases, ferns and forbs invading the region’s forests and other natural areas. The updated field guide added 23 plant species, more than 200 new photos and images, and a ‘Resembles’ section so users can identify plant ‘look-alikes’. Invasive Plants in Southern Forests differs from the first book in that it focuses solely on the identification of exotic plants and does not include control methods. Methods for controlling invasive plants will be covered in a new companion book entitled A Management Guide for Nonnative Plants of Southern Forests by Jim Miller and co-authors Steven Manning, president of Invasive Plant Control, Inc., and Stephen Enloe, Invasive Plant Extension Specialist at Auburn University. That book will be available in late 2010.

Copies of A Field Guide for the Identification of Invasive Plants in Southern Forests are available by sending your name and mailing address, along with the book title, author and publication number GTR-SRS-119 to: pubrequest@fs.fed.us.

The book is posted in a PDF format on the SRS website at A Field Guide for the Identification of Invasive Plants view here.

In addition, it is available in html format at www.invasive.org. Those interested in using images from the book can download files at www.forestryimages.org.

Prepared by: Nancy Loewenstein