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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