Invasive plants: fact sheets

The CFIA's Invasive Plants Program focusses on preventing the introduction and spread of invasive plants in Canada because these species can invade agricultural, horticultural, forestry and natural areas, causing serious damage to our economy and environment.

The following factsheets have been developed to promote public awareness and encourage reporting of potential sightings of these species that have the potential to be invasive in Canada, some of which are regulated.

• African-rue - Peganum harmala
• Chinese yam - Dioscorea polystachya
• Common crupina - Crupina vulgaris
• Dallis grass - Paspalum dilatatum
• Devil's-tail tearthumb - Persicaria perfoliata
• Giant reed - Arundo donax L. (Poaceae)
• Iberian starthistle - Centaurea iberica
• Japanese stiltgrass - Microstegium vimineum
• Jointed goatgrass - Aegilops cylindrica
• Kudzu - Pueraria montana
• Paterson's curse - Echium plantagineum
• Serrated tussock - Nassella trichotoma
• Silverleaf Nightshade - Solanum elaeagnifolium
• Slender foxtail - Alopecurus myosuroides
• South African ragwort - Senecio inaequidens and Madagascar Ragwort - Senecio madagascariensis
• Syrian bean-caper - Zygophyllum fabago
• Woolly Cup Grass - Eriochloa villosa
• Yellow bluestem - Bothriochloa ischaemum
• Yellow starthistle - Centaurea solstitialis