<html><head><style type="text/css">body {word-wrap: break-word; background-color:#ffffff;}</style></head><body><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px">Trumpet creeper is native and beneficial to wildlife, but I have seen it behave invasively, taking over entire meadow habitats and wiping out native grasses and wild flowers, thus promoting a transition of the habitat type. Native concord grape that is well established in woods seems to behave invasively as it climbs trees to reach the sunlight in the upper canopy. Sometimes the grape vines can take down trees, thus allowing more sunlight to the forest floor and the spread of the terrain the grape may cover.<br>Christine Balint<br><br><font color="#333333"><i><span style="font-size: 14px"><font face="sans-serif">Connected by DROID on Verizon Wireless</font></span></i></font></div><br><br>-----Original message-----<br><blockquote style="; border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px"><b>From: </b>Robert Layton Beyfuss <rlb14@cornell.edu><b><br>To: </b>Katy Cummings <katy.e.cummings@gmail.com>, "native-plants@lists.plantconservation.org" <native-plants@lists.plantconservation.org><b><br>Sent: </b>Mon, Aug 27, 2012 13:43:53 GMT+00:00<b><br>Subject: </b>Re: [PCA] Native Phragmites Data<br><br></div></blockquote></body></html>