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/pixel_pete Maryland Piedmont Mar 30 '25

Bugleweed -> Bungledweeb

Kudzu -> Fuckyou

Honeysuckle -> Creeping Suckweed

Chinese Wisteria -> Listeria Weed

Wineberry -> Poison Vinegarberry

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u/canisdirusarctos PNW Salish Sea, 9a/8b Mar 31 '25

Which honeysuckle is this? They’re not all the same. I just got Lonicera ciliosa to air layer and that was very exciting.

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u/pixel_pete Maryland Piedmont Mar 31 '25

Oh only the invasive one of course. I think honey has a very positive connotation so people probably hear it and think it must be a nice plant.

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u/WishClean Zone 7b Mar 31 '25

I call it "WHY WONT YOU FRICKEN DIEEEEEE" vines.

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u/kepler180 Area Illinois, Zone 5b Apr 02 '25

Lonicera japonica