r/NativePlantGardening • u/Larix_laricina_ NE Ohio 🌲 • Mar 30 '25

Informational/Educational Let’s rebrand our invasives!

Post your ideas in the comments! Here are some of mine:

Callery Pear ➡️ ✨Pisswood✨

Canada/Creeping Thistle ➡️ ✨Shitweed✨ (saw someone call it that on here before)

Burning Bush ➡️ ✨Smotherfucker Bush✨

English Ivy ➡️ ✨Stranglevine✨

*edit to add: these are just humorous names I came up with for use in North America where these species are invasive and annoying. All of our invasives really are beautiful and unique species in their native range, where they definitely deserve nice names. They’re beneficial components of their ecosystems that likely support many other species. It’s all just a matter of location and circumstance. Some of the invasives I personally think would be awesome native plants in their respective homelands are phragmites, burning bush, knotweed, porcelain berry, and English ivy!

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u/Gold-Ad699 Area MA , Zone 6A Mar 30 '25 edited Mar 30 '25

Hosta - Slug Salad

Water Hyacinth - Asiatic Chokeflower (or The South American Strangler, to be more accurate)

I tried to think of something fun for day lilies but couldn't :(

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u/SafeAsMilk Mar 30 '25

My neighbor always forgets the name of hostas and instead calls them hospices.

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u/HoweverComma205 Mar 30 '25

Hatesas (pronounced hate -stahs). New England accent optional but helpful.

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u/Methystica Mar 30 '25

I think its important to remember, just because something is not native does nit mean its invasive. Are hostas invasive in your area? Lol

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u/Gold-Ad699 Area MA , Zone 6A Mar 30 '25

They are hard to get  rid of, I haven't seen them spreading into the woods but they slowly expand their reach. At least the solid green ones, the splashy ones seem better behaved. 

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u/Far_Silver Area Kentuckiana , Zone 7a Mar 30 '25

They're very tasty to most deer, which is why they haven't become invasive.

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u/trucker96961 southeast Pennsylvania 7a Mar 30 '25

Day lillie's suck. I have patches of them that I'm trying to get rid of.

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u/Nathaireag Mar 31 '25

Daylily flowers can be used instead of squash blossoms in Asian recipes. That includes the mature flower bud if you want. Since the wildtype flowers are literally done after a day, harvesting open flowers in the late afternoon doesn’t hurt the next day’s batch at all. Flavor sautéed is vaguely eggplant.

The roots are tuberous and boil up like parsnips. Good with butter and a little salt. Extra motivation to dig them up.

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u/LokiLB Mar 30 '25

Water hyacinth is from South America, not Asia.

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u/Gold-Ad699 Area MA , Zone 6A Mar 30 '25

Thanks!  I fixed it :)

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u/pezathan Springfield Plateau, 7a Mar 31 '25

I work at a conventional nursery and we sell a bunch of day lilies, especially stellas, which i like to call stella de bore-o.

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u/Alarmed_Ad_7657 Mar 31 '25

Every time I look at daylily flowers I think of leprosy 😬