Tag Archives: Phragmites
Phragmites in Wisconsin: Location, Location, Location
Depending on where you are in Wisconsin, you may have heard of non-native Phragmites. In most of western Wisconsin, it’s a plant you might only recognize from an invasive species watch list. If you are in the far eastern part … Continue reading
Posted in Grants, Invasive Species, Monitoring, Water Quality
Tagged Invasive Species, Phragmites
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Through the Looking Glass … Again.
A persistent misconception about aquatic plants is that they are “weeds”. With names like pondweed, pickerelweed and duckweed, it’s not hard to understand why this view persists. Yet, native aquatic plants are important for healthy lakes. Seventeen years ago a … Continue reading
Posted in Education and Outreach, Lake News, Lakes Partnership, Other, Water Quality
Tagged Aquatic Invasive Species, aquatic plants, Field guide to Aquatic Plants, Lakes, Phragmites, plant identification, Purple Loosestrife, Through the Looking Glass, UW extension lakes, Water Quality, Wisconsin Lakes Partnership
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Aquatic Invasive Species Bridge Snapshot Day: Where Rivers Meet People
For many a bridge is just a way to conveniently pass over the river below. The trip is the main goal; the river just a spot along the way. For others a bridge is a portal to what is below … Continue reading
Posted in Contain and Control Invasive Species, Invasive Species, Lakes Partnership, Monitoring, Other
Tagged AIS, Aquatic Invasive Species, Bridge snapshot day, bridges, citizen science, community involvement, Invasive Species, invasive species monitoring, Phragmites, Purple Loosestrife, rivers, stream monitoring, streams, Volunteer Monitoring, water lettuce, yellow floating heart
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Grant-funded project to control newly establishing invasive Phragmites patches
Throughout the Great Lakes region, a very tall, densely growing grass known as Phragmites australis or common reed grass is beginning to settle in Wisconsin’s roadsides, wetlands and lake shorelines. Wisconsin has long had a native strain of Phragmites, which … Continue reading
Posted in Contain and Control Invasive Species, Grants, Invasive Species, Monitoring
Tagged GLRI, Grants, Invasive Species, Phragmites
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