Invasive & Non-Native Plants in Alaska
These non-native plants are among the most commonly recorded spreading in Alaska. Many crowd out the plants local wildlife depends on. The good news: there's a native you can plant instead.
Splendid feather moss
3,322 sightingsHylocomium splendens · non-native to the U.S.
Plant instead: a Alaska native that fits the same spot.
Sanionia moss
2,236 sightingsSanionia uncinata · non-native to the U.S.
Plant instead: a Alaska native that fits the same spot.
Bird vetch
1,827 sightingsVicia cracca · non-native to the U.S.
Plant instead: Black vetch, American vetch (native Vicia)
Girgensohn's sphagnum
1,736 sightingsSphagnum girgensohnii · non-native to the U.S.
Plant instead: a Alaska native that fits the same spot.
Racomitrium moss
1,687 sightingsRacomitrium lanuginosum · non-native to the U.S.
Plant instead: a Alaska native that fits the same spot.
Butter and eggs
1,667 sightingsLinaria vulgaris · non-native to the U.S.
Plant instead: a Alaska native that fits the same spot.
Reed canarygrass
1,639 sightingsPhalaris arundinacea · non-native to the U.S.
Plant instead: a Alaska native that fits the same spot.
Alpine polytrichastrum moss
1,495 sightingsPolytrichastrum alpinum · non-native to the U.S.
Plant instead: a Alaska native that fits the same spot.
Ceratodon moss
1,483 sightingsCeratodon purpureus · non-native to the U.S.
Plant instead: a Alaska native that fits the same spot.
Aulacomnium moss
1,435 sightingsAulacomnium palustre · non-native to the U.S.
Plant instead: a Alaska native that fits the same spot.
Elongate dicranum moss
1,369 sightingsDicranum elongatum · non-native to the U.S.
Plant instead: a Alaska native that fits the same spot.
Schreber's big red stem moss
1,328 sightingsPleurozium schreberi · non-native to the U.S.
Plant instead: a Alaska native that fits the same spot.
Goose neck moss
1,299 sightingsRhytidiadelphus loreus · non-native to the U.S.
Plant instead: a Alaska native that fits the same spot.
Oxeye daisy
1,278 sightingsLeucanthemum vulgare · non-native to the U.S.
Plant instead: a Alaska native that fits the same spot.
Sphagnum
1,187 sightingsSphagnum squarrosum · non-native to the U.S.
Plant instead: a Alaska native that fits the same spot.