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10 Most Unwanted Plants
Garlic mustard
Wanted for breaking and entering
Known as the "woodland scourge", this biennial intruder chokes out shady areas. Each plant produces thousands of seeds.
The blossoms are white.
The leaves are medium green
Canada thistle
Cut-leaved teasel
European buckthorn
Gray dogwood
Multiflora rose
Purple loosestrife
Reed canary grass
White sweet clover
Wild parsnip
drawing by Elizabeth Plonka