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  • Spotted Lanternfly in Home Gardens

    … wide range of plants including grapes, hops, apples, stone fruits, maples, walnuts, and other plant species. Its feeding … information on wasps, please see our social wasps page . Tree-of-heaven (Ailanthus altissima) Photo: Richard Gardner, … A primary host plant for the spotted lanternfly is   tree-of-heaven ( Ailanthus altissima ) , an invasive weedy …

  • Invasives in your Woodland: Porcelain-berry (updated 2025)

    … Porcelain-berry fruits. Photo by Leslie J. Mehrhoff, University of … into berries of a variety of colors. Beginning as white fruits, they turn yellow, lilac, green, or turquoise. Observing both the small flowers and the fruits will also aid in identification. Native grape flowers …

  • Invasives in Your Woodland: Chinese and Japanese Wisteria (Updated 2025)

    … direction in which these invasive wisterias twine around a tree can be diagnostic. A Chinese Wisteria vine twines counterclockwise around a Princess tree in Calvert County, MD in 2018. Photo by Jim Brighton, … direction in which these invasive wisterias twine around a tree can be diagnostic. A Japanese Wisteria vine twines …

  • Poison Ivy

    Poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans). Photo: Ginny Williams Updated: September 18, 2023 Key points Poison ivy, Toxicodendron radicans , is a common native plant … migrating birds. Poison ivy is typically a deciduous woody vine that attaches itself to trees or other objects for …

  • Invasives in Your Woodland: Oriental Bittersweet (updated 2025)

    … four inches in diameter. As it grows in spirals around a tree, the vine is able to girdle and kill the tree or break off its branches under its weight. If … and two to five inches in length. Oriental bittersweet’s fruits are round and yellow which split to reveal bright red …

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  • Branching Out - Fall 2023

    … Stewards workshop and field trip, and about using the i-Tree app to create woodland assessments. One of our regular … "Invasives in Your Woodlands" looks at the white mulberry tree. And don't forget the events calendar and the Brain … of Delaware and Virginia. Learn more >>   Using i-Tree for Landscape Tree Assessment John Hooven, UME Forest …

  • Invasives in Your Woodland: English Ivy

    … English ivy foliage climbing pine tree in September. Photo by Chuck Bargeron, University of … into salt marshes and field edges. The vines climb up tree trunks to envelop branches and twigs, blocking sunlight … sprout in a new environment. To remove English ivy from a tree, remove the leaves and the smaller vines to expose the …

  • Porcelainberry

    … Porcelainberry blooms in mid- to late summer, and fruits (berries) ripen in autumn. Birds and other small … wild grape species in Maryland are native. The flowers and fruits of these two genera are easier to distinguish from one … climbing stems can easily reach 20 feet if scaling a tree Blooms: upright, flat-topped, branched clusters of pale …

  • Japanese Maple Scale in Home Landscapes

    … on Woody Plants: an IPM approach. Third Edition, revised. Tree Care Industry Association. Pest Predictive Calendar A …