Invasive Plant Operations Overview
2017 Everglades Invasive Species Summit
Everglades Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area
The Everglades Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area (Everglades CISMA) is an interagency partnership that manages, researches, and educates about invasive species across south Florida. The Everglades CISMA contains six major partners plus numerous cooperators including federal, state, and local government agencies, universities, tribes, and nonprofit organizations.
See: http://www.evergladescisma.org/
ECISMA Priority Plant SpeciesMelaleuca Lygodium Schinus Casuarina Ardisia
ellipticaColubrinaasiatica
Dioscorea OtherFLEPPCCat. 1
Other
Big Cypress NP
Biscayne NPBroward Co.Everglades NPFDOT Dist. 1FWC (EWMA, HWMA, and RWMA)
FWS (Lox Refuge)
Miami-Dade Co.
SFWMD
2016/2017 Newly Detected Plant Species Florida Fish & Wildlife
Conservation CommissionAsian sword fern (Nephrolepis brownie) – Everglades: WCA 3AN, WCA 3BDay jessamine (Cestrum diurnum) – Everglades: WCA 3BJava plum (Syzygium cumini) – Everglades: WCA 3BQueen palm (Syagrus romanzoffiana) – Everglades: WCA 3ANSea hibiscus (Talipariti tiliaceum) – Everglades: WCA 3ANSerpent fern (Phymatosorus scolopendria) – Everglades: WCA 3AN, WCA 3BTorpedograss (Panicum repens) – Holey Land and RotenbergerWild Taro (Colocasia esculenta) – Holey Land
WCA2
WCA3B
WCA3A
Rotenberger
Holey Land
Thanks Marsha Ward
2016/2017 Newly Detected Plant Species Miami-Dade County
Small-leaf spiderwort (Tradescantia fluminensis)at Arch Creek Park
Lemon-bay rum (Pimenta racemosa) at Deering Estate and Matheson Hammock *
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Thanks Jane Dozier
2016/2017 Newly Detected Plant Species Broward County
Black sage - Varronia curassavica1st detected in 2012 in Miramar Pineland
Thanks: Erik Eckles and Pat Howell
2016/2017 Newly Detected Plant Species Big Cypress National Preserve
Spathoglotis plicata- Philippine Ground orchid
BICY
Thanks William Snyder
2016/2017 Newly Detected Plant Species Everglades National ParkOryza rufipogon (red rice grass), Anhinga Trail (Thought eradicated in the late 1990’s and then found again in Fall/Winter of 2016. Found by Jimi Sadle
Euphorbia lactea (mottled spurge, elkhorn), Key Largo Ranger Station. Found by Brooke Shamblin.
Spathoglottis plicata- (Philippine ground orchid), Hole In the Donut. Found by John Dollard.
Lygodium japonicum- (Japanese climbing fern)-Parking lot of Coe Visitor Center. Found by Gwen Burzycki. (Reported 6/12/2017).
EVER
Thanks : John Dollard, Jimi Sadle, Gwen Burzycki, and Brooke Shamblin
2016/2017 Newly Detected Plant Species South Florida Water Management District
Arundo donax (giant reed) in 8.5 SMA
Leptochloa nealleyi (Nealley’s sprangeltop) in the BBCW Restoration site and the C111 Restoration site
Tectaria incisa (incised halberd fern) along Aerojet Road
Saccharum spontaneum (wild sugarcane) in 8.5 SMA and Rocky Glades
Pennisetum polystachion (West Indian pennisetum) along C-51
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Thanks: Ryan Brown, Christen Mason and Ellen Allen
2016/2017 Newly Detected Plant Species
Nothing new to report
Loxahatchee National Wildlife RefugeFlorida Department of TransportationBiscayne National Park
LOX
BISC
Thanks: Andrew Eatwick, Steven Kelly, Elisabeth Hassett, Lauren Kowalski, Shelby Moneysmith, and Erik Eckles
2016/2017 Treatments: Melaleuca ~ 200,052 acres
swept for melaleuca
- Predominantly re-treatment and maintenance control work
-Some initial treatment inEverglades NP
* Estimate of acres is sum of grid cell area
2016/2017 Treatments: Casuarina(Australian pine)
~ 26,935 acresswept for Casuarina
Work in EvergladesNP, Water Conservation Areas and Biscayne NP
* Estimate of acres is sum of grid cell area
2016/2017 Treatments: Schinus(Brazilian pepper)
~ 271,399 acresswept for Schinus
Most or all areas had some treatment. Majority of treatmentIn Big Cypress NP, and Rotenberger, Holey Landand Water Conservation Area 3.
* Estimate of acres is sum of grid cell area
2016/2017 Treatments: Lygodium(Old World climbing fern) ~ 241,707 acresswept for Lygodium
Most or all areas had some treatment. Majority of treatmentIn Loxahatchee NWR , Big Cypress NP, Southern Glades,Rotenberger, Holey Landand Water Conservation Area 3.
* Estimate of acres is sum of grid cell area
2016/2017 Treatments: Other managed plant species
Miami-Dade Ardisia ellipticaNeyraudia reynaudianaMikania micranthaLumnitzera racemosaHeteropterys brachiataPrescribed fire pine rocklandswildfire South Dade Wetlands
FDOT-District OnePanicum repensVines*FDOT & BICY collaborate
(I-75 & SR 29)
FWC-WCA 3A, Holey Land and Rotenberger WMAs
Urochloa muticaPanicum repensSyzygium cuminiTree Island- tree plantings Prescribed fire
LOX NWROxycaryum cubense
BISC NPThespesia populneaColubrina asiaticaScaevola taccadaBICY NP
Hydrilla verticillataMelia azedarachPsidium guajavaSyzygium cumini
Nymphoides cristada
EVER NPSyngonium podophyllum.,
Colubrina asiatica,Leucaena leucoephala
SFWMDArdisia elliptica
Bischofia javanicaLeucaena leucocephala
exotic grasses
BrowardSyzygium cumini
Dioscorea bulbiferaEpipremnum pinnatumTradescantia spathaceaSansevieria hyacinthoides
2017-2018 Planned Melaleuca treatments
~642,688 acres planned for Melaleuca treatments
* Estimate of acres is sum of grid cell area
2017-2018 Planned Casuarina treatments
(Australian pine)~262,055 acres planned forCasuarina treatments
* Estimate of acres is sum of grid cell area
2017-2018 Planned Schinustreatments
(Brazilian pepper)~187,023 acres planned forSchinus treatments
* Estimate of acres is sum of grid cell area
Photo from http://florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/Photo.aspx?id=3035
2017- 2018 Planned Lygodiumtreatments
(Old World climbing fern)~642,688 acres planned forLygodium treatments
Planned other species treatments 2017/2018
EVER NPMyriophyllum(water-milfoil)
Water Conservation Area 3 (Everglades Wildlife Management Area)New minor locations ofExotic species detectedDuring rare plant surveys
Miami-Dade/Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, study on Burma reed (Neyraudiareynaudiana) control in pine rocklands.
CooperationThanks
Shea Bruscia (USNPS)LeRoy Rodgers (SFWMD)Andrew Eastwick (USFWS)
Billy Snyder (USNPS)Tony Pernas (USNPS)
Shelby Moneysmith (USNPS)Brooke Shamblin (USNPS)
Jimi Sadle (USNPS)Marsha Ward (FWC)
Ryan Brown (SFWMD)Christen Mason (SFWMD)
Ellen Allen (SFWMD)Jane Dozier (Miami Dade Co.)
Gwen Burzycki (Miami Dade Co.) Erik Eckles (Broward Co.)
Steven Kelly (FLDOT)Lauren Kowalski (FLDOT)Elisabeth Hassett (FLDOT)
All the others that made this work possible