{"id":188,"date":"2013-08-31T20:14:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T20:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vaplantatlas.org\/news\/?p=188"},"modified":"2013-09-27T00:20:11","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T00:20:11","slug":"three-new-exotics-established-in-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vaplantatlas.org\/news\/2013\/08\/three-new-exotics-established-in-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Three new, potentially invasive exotics established in Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well-established populations of three new, introduced plants have been documented in Virginia during the 2013 field season.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Aldrovanda vesiculosa<\/em> L.<\/strong> (waterwheel plant), a carnivorous aquatic in the Droseraceae, was found to be abundant in parts of an old, large impoundment at Fort A.P. Hill Military Reservation in Caroline County.\u00a0 Evidently escaped from a nearby cultivated population, these plants represent one of only a few North American records for this Old World species.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous individuals of <strong><em>Alnus glutinosa<\/em> (L.) Gaertn.<\/strong> (black alder) were discovered in a small, weedy creek bottom adjacent to a golf course and old estate in Washington County.\u00a0 Previous reports of single, escaped trees in Arlington and Fairfax counties did not seem substantial enough to consider this species &#8220;established&#8221; in the state.\u00a0 This European alder is frequently used in wetland restoration plantings, and has been reported as invasive in seven states north of Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>A low, sprawling, small-flowered Geranium found on a rich rocky embankment along Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park (Page County) proved to be <strong><em>Geranium sibiricum<\/em> L.<\/strong> (Siberian cranesbill).\u00a0 The plant occurs for some distance along the Drive at this site and has obviously been undetected for some time.\u00a0 This Eurasian species is well established in a number of state north and northwest of Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>More information is available on the individual map pages for these species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well-established populations of three new, introduced plants have been documented in Virginia during the 2013 field season. Aldrovanda vesiculosa L. (waterwheel plant), a carnivorous aquatic in the Droseraceae, was found to be abundant in parts of an old, large impoundment at Fort A.P. Hill Military Reservation in Caroline County.\u00a0 Evidently escaped from a nearby cultivated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-discoveries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaplantatlas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaplantatlas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaplantatlas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaplantatlas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaplantatlas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vaplantatlas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaplantatlas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaplantatlas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaplantatlas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}