[APWG] NEWS: UConn efforts help curb spread of invasive plants in state

Olivia Kwong plant at plantconservation.org
Mon Feb 23 13:56:47 CST 2009


http://www.advance.uconn.edu/2009/090223/09022311.htm

UConn efforts help curb spread of invasive plants in state
by Elizabeth Omara-Otunnu - February 23, 2009

You see them in the parking lots of retail chain stores and fast food 
outlets -- neat shrubs with glowing scarlet leaves in fall and bright 
crimson berries in winter.

Burning bush is beautiful but, as many people now know, it.s one of a 
growing number of invasive plant species that are threatening indigenous 
ecological systems.

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