Berberis thunbergii
Common Name(s) : Japanese barberry
Origin : Asia
Status : Available
Provincial Location : ON, QC, NS, PEI
Habitat : Areas prone to browsing by deer
Description: 4-6 feet high, flowers yellow in drooping clusters, many
stemmed, green or red leaves, 2 inches long, fruits oblong and bright red
Invasive Potential : P
Usage : Ornamental
Control Methods : 2, 3
Additional Comments : Spread by birds, introduced 1806
Caragana arborescens
Common Name(s): Siberian peashrub
Origin : Europe
Status :
Provincial Location(s) : AB, MB, ON, QC
Habitat :
Description :
Usage : Ornamental
Invasive Potential : P
Control Method(s) : 1, 2
Celastrus orbiculatus
Common Name(s) : Asiatic bittersweet, Oriental bittersweet
Origin : Eurasia
Status : Available
Provincial Location :
Habitat : Woods, thickets, roadsides, fence rows
Description: 7 m high, flowers in small greenish yellow clusters, leaves
alternate, simple, deciduous, rounded, fruits small orange-yellow
Invasive Potential : H
Usage : Ornamental
Control Methods : 2, 3
Additional Comments : Spread by birds
Cynanchum nigrum
Common Name(s) : Dog-strangling vine, Black swallowort
Origin : Europe
Status : Available
Provincial Location : BC, ON, QC
Habitat : Old fields, pastures, fence rows, waste places
Description: Perennial, 5-15 dm high, 5 lobed purple flowers, stems
twining, leaves opposite, simple, petioled, 8 cm long
Invasive Potential : H
Usage :
Control Methods : 1, 2
Ligustrum vulgare
Common Name(s) : Common privet
Origin :
Status : Available
Provincial Location :
Habitat :
Description: White flowers in clusters, leaves opposite, simple, berry
like fruits
Invasive Potential : P
Usage : Ornamental
Control Methods : 2, 3
Lonicera japonica
Common Name(s) : Japanese honeysuckle
Origin : Asia
Status : Available
Provincial Location : ON
Habitat : Open woods, thickets, roadsides, old gardens
Description: 3 m high, flowers in pairs, yellow or white, tubular, leaves
hairy, opposite, simple, entire, purplish-black berries
Invasive Potential : L
Usage : Ornamental
Control Methods : 2, 3
Additional Comments : Leaves remain in winter
Lonicera tatarica
Common Name(s) : Tartarian honeysuckle
Origin : Asia
Status : Available
Provincial Location : NF, NB, NS, PEI
Habitat : Open woods, thickets, lake shores, roadsides, wasteland
Description: 3 m high, numerous flowers, pink or white on stalks, leaves
opposite, simple, deciduous, blades 2-6 cm long, thin, fruits in pairs,
red, orange or yellow
Invasive Potential : L
Usage : Ornamental
Control Methods : 6
Additional Comments : Displaces native understorey and ground flora
Rosa eglanteria
Common Name(s) : Sweetbriar, Eglantine, Sweetleaf rose
Origin : Europe
Status : Available
Provincial Location : ON
Habitat : Fields, old gardens
Description: Perennial, 1 m high, sweet scented, 5 lobed pink flowers,
Prickles, leaves alternate, pinnate, resinous on lower surface, fruit
yellow to red fleshy rose hip
Invasive Potential : L
Usage : Ornamental
Control Methods : 1, 2
Rosa multiflora
Common Name(s) : Multiflowered rose
Origin : Eurasia
Status : Available
Provincial Location : ON
Habitat : Woodlands, old gardens
Description: Perennial, 1 m high, 5 lobed flowers, pink, red, yellow or
white, prickles, leaves alternate, pinnate, compound, deciduous, fruit
yellow to red fleshy rose hip
Invasive Potential : L
Usage : Ornamental
Control Methods : 1, 2
Additional Comments : Displaces native species, spread by birds
Rosa rugosa
Common Name(s) : Japanese rose, Wrinkled rose
Origin : Eurasia
Status : Available
Provincial Location :
Habitat : Fields, old gardens
Description: Perennial, 2.5 m high, flowers dark red or white, 5 petals,
5-9 large leaflets, hairy underneath, thorny, large orange scarlet rose
hip fruit
Invasive Potential : L
Usage : Ornamental
Control Methods : 1, 2
Additional Comments : Introduced 1845
Rubus discolor
Common Name(s) : Himalayan blackberry
Origin : Eurasia
Status :
Provincial Location : BC
Habitat : Old woods, shady areas
Description: Perennial, 1-1.5 m, loose, delicate white flowers, long
canes, prickly stem, fruits aggregation of drupes, black
Invasive Potential : P
Usage : Ornamental
Control Methods : 1, 2
Additional Comments : Forms dense thickets
Syringa vulgaris
Common Name(s) : Lilac
Origin : Europe
Status : Available
Provincial Location : SK, ON, QC, NF, NB, NS
Habitat : Old homesteads
Description: 5 m high, flowers purple, pink or white in clusters,
fragrant, leaves deciduous, simple, opposite, 5-12 cm long, heart-shaped,
pointed, smooth
Invasive Potential : L
Usage : Ornamental
Control Methods : 4, 6
Viburnum lantana
Common Name(s): Wayfaring tree
Origin : Europe
Status : Available
Provincial Location(s): ON
Habitat : Moist forests
Description : 2 m high, 13 cm flowers, umbrella-shaped, white, leaves
olive green, opposite, simple, deciduous in pairs, clusters of black fruit
Invasive Potential : P
Usage : Ornamental
Control Methods : 4, 6
Viburnum opulus
Common Name(s) : Guelder rose, European highbush cranberry
Origin : Eurasia
Status : Available
Provincial Location : BC, SK, AB, MB, ON, QC, NF
Habitat : Swamps and bogs, along streams, open woods, thickets
Description: 5 m high, yellow or white flowers, leaves opposite, 3 lobed,
bright red berries
Invasive Potential : L
Usage : Ornamental
Control Methods : 4, 6
Additional Comments : Shunned by wildlife, unpleasant taste
