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Managing Nandina Domestica in Florida: Impacts, Identification, and Control

Learn about the biology, distribution, impacts, and management of Nandina Domestica, an invasive plant species in Florida. Discover preventative, cultural, mechanical, and chemical control methods to combat its spread and protect native vegetation.

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Managing Nandina Domestica in Florida: Impacts, Identification, and Control

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  1. Nandina Nandina domestica (Thunb) Berberidaceae

  2. Biology • Introduced from China and Japan in early 1800’s • Also called heavenly bamboo • Evergreen to semi-evergreen shrub • Visually similar to bamboo

  3. Background Economic Uses • Cultivated as an ornamental • Attractive foliage, flowers and fruit

  4. Distribution • Found in isolated areas of north and central Florida • Found along roadways and disturbed areas, forest edges, waterways • Generally as a direct escape from cultivation • Also found in certain conservation areas, woodlands and floodplains

  5. Nandina Distribution in Florida

  6. Impacts • Category 1 invasive species (FLEPPC) • Limited spread into undisturbed sites • Available for sale in the nursery trade, newer hybridized cultivars do not produce seed • Spread by wildlife, vegetatively through suckers and rhizomes • Forms dense thickets, displaces native vegetation

  7. Identification

  8. Mature Plant • Evergreen shrub, grows 4 to 8 feet tall • Inner bark is yellow • Spreads vegetatively through root suckers

  9. Leaves • Leaves are tri-pinnately compound • Alternately arranged • Reddish bronze, turning green, then returning to reddish color in fall

  10. Flowers and Fruit • Flowers are white, borne in panicles • Fruit are round berries, red and persist on the plant until consumed

  11. Management Preventative Cultural Mechanical Biological Chemical

  12. Preventative • Limit planting as an ornamental, especially the non-hybridized cultivars • Remove existing plants, including rootstocks and before seeds are produced • Rouge out plants in abandoned areas

  13. Cultural • Alternative landscape plants to replace nandina • Programs to educate homeowners about the problems associated with nandina and proper identification • Maintain good ground cover and mixture of plant species to reduce establishment

  14. Biological • There are no known biological control agents available for nandina management in Florida or the southeastern U.S.

  15. Mechanical • Hand pull young seedlings, including all roots, repeated pulling for resprouts • Cut plant down at ground level, but will resprout and require re-cutting • Mowing is effective on small bushes and resprouts, but must be repeated

  16. Chemical - Foliar • Over-the-top applications for seedlings, resprouts and small plants • Thoroughly wet leaves with herbicide • Triclopyr – 2% solution • Glyphosate – 2 to 3% solution • Use surfactant at 0.25% • Best results applied before fruiting

  17. Useful Links • Floridata Homepage: http://www.floridata.com • University of Florida Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants: http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/welcome.html • University of Florida’s Cooperative Extension Electronic Data Information Source: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/index.html

  18. Useful Links • The Plant Conservation Alliance's Alien Plant Working Group. Weeds Gone Wild: Alien Plant Invaders of Natural Areas: http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/index.htm • Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER). Plant Threats to Pacific Ecosystems: http://www.hear.org/pier/threats.htm • Invasive Plants of the Eastern United States: http://www.invasive.org • USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. Plants Database: http://plants.usda.gov

  19. Literature Cited Langeland, K.A. and K. Craddock Burks. 1998. Identification and Biology of Non-Native Plants in Florida's Natural Areas. IFAS Publication SP 257. University of Florida, Gainesville. 165 pp

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