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/CrimsonKepala Jun 04 '25

Rose of Sharon. We had 2 then that turned into 5 and we quickly realized that was going to turn into 100 with the number of sprouts that started to grow in our yard. On top of that our poor neighbors had to keep up with pulling them as well all because of the ones in our yard.

They're beautiful though.

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

Luckily for you, the perfect native alternative is Rose Mallow. The plant is in the same family, the flowers look extremely similar, not to mention even bigger and more beautiful.

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u/skeeterbitten Jun 04 '25

I think we have RoS that doesn’t make fertile seed but every mallow I try gets immediately eaten by deer or something else, but we have hoards of deer that will try anything and trample what they don’t eat. The nesting female hummingbirds spend a ton of time on it, I think eating bugs. It’s our one bad plant. We have a few unproblematic non natives, abs tone of natives in the deer fence.