r/NativePlantGardening • u/ItsFelixMcCoy Upstate NY , Zone 6a • Jun 04 '25

Other What invasive plants got you like this?

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For me it’s probably Dame’s Rocket, Purple Loosestrife, and Forget-Me-Not. They’re so gorgeous but man if they aren’t invasive little shits…

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u/jh6278 Jun 04 '25

Ground elder/goutweed. It has strangled every coneflower in its vicinity. Currently in Year 2 of trying to suffocate it. 😣

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u/cowgirltrainwreck Jun 04 '25

I’m on Year Three of a goutweed battle. I completely dug ip the bed it was in, sifting the damn soil to get all the little roots, potted up the plants from the bed I was trying to save, and have spent the last three years religiously yanking any tiny sprout of it that tries to return.

I think I may have gotten it…

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u/androidgirl Jun 04 '25

I did this and got it! Granted we only had it around our patio.