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BBG
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Plant Blindness
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Symptoms of Plant Blindness

• Failure to see or focus on plants
• Seeing plants as merely backdrop to animals
• Insensitive to the aesthetic qualities of plants
• Overlooking the importance of plants

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden Handbooks Invasive
Plants Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants
(coming this summer) www.bbg.org
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Celastrus orbiculata Oriental Bittersweet
3.16
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Celastrus scandens American Bittersweet
-1.17
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pre1950
pre1950
American bittersweet
Oriental bittersweet
post1950
post1950
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Change in Celastrus Species
C. scandens
C. orbiculata
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Phragmites Phragmites australis
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Phragmites australis ssp. americana
Phragmites australis ssp. australis
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1991
1997
Figure 1. Vegetation changes Iona
Marsh. Source NYS DEC / Hudson River National
Estuarine Research Reserve
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Iona Island Expansion of Phragmites australis
1964 - 1997
Percent of marsh surface
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Data from Breeding Bird Survey at Iona Marsh,
Spring 2004. By Lawler, Matusky Skelly
Engineers for DEC/PIPC and Hudson River Foundation
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Data from Breeding Bird Survey at Iona Marsh,
Spring 2004. By Lawler, Matusky Skelly
Engineers for DEC/PIPC and Hudson River Foundation
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Purple loosestrife Lythrum salicaria
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Purple loosetrife Lythrum salicaria
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Garlic Mustard Alliaria petiolata
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Garlic mustard
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Japanese Stiltgrass
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Japanese stilt grass Microstegium vimineum
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Japanese Barberry Berberis thunbergiiCI 1.78
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Change Index top ten and bottom ten
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Giant HogweedHeracleum mantegazzianumConcerns

• Sap causes sensitivity to UV light

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Pueraria lobata Kudzu
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Aralia elata
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Range map of Aralia elata (red) and A. spinosa
(green)