[APWG] NEWS: Longer Marketing Time Increases the Risk of Naturalization by Horticultural Plants

Olivia Kwong plant at plantconservation.org
Tue Feb 24 09:30:50 CST 2009


http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2009/090224.htm

Longer Marketing Time Increases the Risk of Naturalization by 
Horticultural Plants
By Stephanie Yao
February 24, 2009

Plants that are mainstays of horticulture also carry lots of risk, a new 
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) study has found. Naturalization rates 
of non-native horticultural plants increase the longer a plant is grown 
and sold.

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