This Week in the Garden: Your Questions Answered, Week of April 13
As you’re headed out to your yards after the storms and rain earlier this week, we need you to be on the lookout for a new invasive plant making its way through Wisconsin…
Lesser celandine (Ficaria verna), is an invasive plant spreading across the upper Midwest. It thrives in moist, lowland environments like forest floors, riverbanks and floodplains, but is also hardy enough to spread into lawns and landscapes. Once established, it carpets an area, outcompeting native spring wildflowers and greatly reducing biodiversity in natural ecosystems. It is VERY difficult to get rid of once it is established, so early identification and management efforts are key!
There is only a short window of time when lesser celandine is identifiable, so it’s critical to be on the lookout for this plant NOW.
Learn more:
https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/lesser-celandine-new…
If you think you’ve found Lesser Celandine, make a report using the free EDDMapS smartphone app (www.eddmaps.org) or contact Matt Wallrath, Wisconsin First Detector Network Outreach Specialist, at (608) 262-9570.