PlantRight’s 2015 list of horticultural invasive plants identifies the 10 highest priority invasive plants available for sale in California. If one of these ten plants is invasive in your climate zone, consider the beautiful, non-invasive alternatives that can fill the same role in your garden or landscape.
Green fountain grass (Pennisetum setaceum)
Mexican Feathergrass (Nassella/Stipa tenuissima)
Pampas grass (Cortaderia selloana)
Click here to see the full list of invasives and alternatives, including climate zone and drought-tolerance information.
PlantRight was founded in 2005 to address the ongoing sale of invasive garden plants in California in an environmentally sound and economically viable manner. Though more than half of California's invasive plants were originally introduced through horticultural channels, no cohesive effort previously existed to work with the nursery industry to prevent the spread of invasive plants in the state