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| Web URL(s): | http://www.newss.org/proceedings/proceedings_2002_vol56.pdf#page=26
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| Content Type: | Abstract or Summary only |
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| Author(s): | Imlay, M. J. |
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| Author Affiliation: | Maryland Native Plant Society |
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| Title: | Stiltgrass control strategies for relatively pristine natural areas |
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| Meeting Info.: | Loews Hotel, Philadelphia, PA: January 7, 8, 9, and 10, 2002 |
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| Source: | Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the NortheasternWeed Science Society. Vol. 56, 2002, p. 26. |
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| Publishing Information: | Ithaca, NY: Northeastern Weed Science Society |
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| # of Pages: | 1 |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Microstegium vimineum; Invasive weeds; Weed profile; Weed Control; Glyphosate
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| Geographic Terms: | Maryland, Virginia |
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| Abstract/Contents: | "An alien invader is spreading like wildfire through the parklands of Maryland and Virginia. Japanese stiltgrass [Microstegium vimineum (Trin.) Camus] is a dense, mat-forming annual grass that roots at nodes, is shade tolerant, and occupies various habitats including creek banks, floodplains, forest roadsides and trails, damp fields, and swamps. It is very aggressively displacing our native plants. Several parks have already lost half their flora, along with several birds that depend on native vegetation as part of their supporting ecosystem. If we can lick this one, we can lick most of them. Japanese stiltgrass is native to temperate and tropical Asia. It can be identified by its lime-green color and a line of silvery hairs down the middle of the 2 to 3 inch long blade. It was introduced near Knoxville, Tennessee around 1919, and its current range is from Mississippi to Florida and north to Arkansas, Kentucky, Ohio, New York, and Connecticut. In the last couple of years at Ruth B. Swann Park in Charles County, Maryland, where the Sierra Club and the Maryland Native Plant Society have been sponsoring invasive plant removal events, we have seen Japanese stiltgrass move in with a vengeance, covering over half of the lower areas of the park with a green carpet from early spring to late fall. On the first two weekends in October of last year, thirteen volunteers ranging in age from 23 to 67 worked a total of 104 person hours in a successful effort to stem the invasion. Together with the work done the previous year, we estimate that 90% of the park's stiltgrass has been killed before it had a chance to set seed. Our control of Japanese stiltgrass may be a model for the mid-Atlantic region on how to do it right. In areas where the stiltgrass had formed a monoculture, we used a 2 percent solution of a glyphosate product (0.06 lb ae/gal) applied with a backpack sprayer, staying 10 feet away from the streams. Used this way, glyphosate does not migrate. Where the stiltgrass plants were mixed with native plants (about 5 percent of the population), volunteers hand-pulled the stiltgrass. Thus, volunteers were critical to the success of this invasive plant removal project. As more government money becomes available for invasive species control, it becomes tempting to depend on indiscriminant herbicide applications by a few trained professionals. AT Huntley Meadows Park in Virginia, $12,000 was spent recently on controlling Japanese stiltgrass with herbicie applications. Volunteers at Swann Park made it possible to control an aggressive invader at a cost of $200, while sparing closely-growing native plants. A goal for the year 2002: Let's control Japanese stiltgrass in Maryland!" |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Imlay, M. J. 2002. Stiltgrass control strategies for relatively pristine natural areas. Proc. Annu. Meet. Northeast. Weed Sci. Soc. 56:p. 26. |
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