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Invasive Species Handbook

CEB student interns have compiled information on common invasive species in Orange County.  Please click on the links below for information pertaining to each species:

Arundo donax (giant cane, giant reed)
Avena barbata (slender oat, wild oat)
Brachypodium distachyon (purple false brome)
Brassica nigra (black mustard)
Bromus diandrus (great brome, ripgut brome)
Bromus madritensis (compact brome, red brome, foxtail brome)
Centaurea melitensis (tocalote, malta star thistle)
Conium maculatum (poison hemlock)
Cynara cardunculus (cardoon, artichoke thistle)
Erodium cicutarium (redstem filaree)
Foeniculum vulgare (fennel)
Nicotiana glauca (tree tobacco)
Picris echioides (bristly ox-tongue)

Our handbook is a work in progress.  Please check back later for information about additional invasive species in Orange County.