:Fforitfa EPPC FLORIDA EXOTIC PEST COUNCIL ''An organization concerned with Florida's Environmental Future" Volume 6 Number 2 Spring 1996

Fountain grass - '" _ Turn off the spigot! 'V As if we haven't learned a lesson from the invasive ability to escape cultivation in Florida. Its preference for natal grass, Pennisetum purpureum, along comes foun­ dry sites could spell trouble for pineland and scrub habi­ tain grass, Pennisetum selaceum. 1bis African species is tats. widely cultivated as an ornamental in southern and cen­ tral Florida and has become popular with landscape The Asian grass Burma reed, Neyraudia reytllludiall/J, architects. It is also frequently offered through mail-or­ aggressively invades dry sites, especially the globally der gardening catalogs. imperiled pine rockland habitat in Dade County. Now that effective management techniques have been devel­ While the tall, exceptionally invasive natal grass oped to control this rampant grass, it is especially im­ colonizes low-lying, wetland areas and canal banks, portant that fountain grass be regulated before it too fountain grass seems to prefer dry sites and is included becomes an environmental and budgetary nightmare. on lists of potential for xeriscaping. On Key Largo in Monroe County, fountain Identification grass has recently been discovered as an escapee in three separate locali­ "This species war­ Fountain grass can be recog­ ties by Keith Bradley. Voucher speci­ nized by its clustering habit, narrow mens have been deposited in the rants being regulated elongate leaves to about one meter herbarium at Fairchild Tropical Gar­ because it is already a tall, and nodding plumose inflores­ den in Miami. Other naturalized serious weed in Hawaii cences that stand above the foliage. populations have been found in a The inflorescence can vary in color disturbed area along the edge of a and is now demonstrat­ from light pink to purple and there pine rockland in Homestead and in ing its ability to escape are several named cultivated varie­ a vacant lot in Cutler Ridge, both in cultivation in Florida." ties with varying leaf color as well. southern Dade County. The cuJtivar rubrum produces rose- colored foliage, cepreum produces reddish foliage, and bears purple foli­ Fountain grass has recently been nominated by the alrosanguineum age. Resource managers should keep a watchful eye for author to be included on the prohibited species Jist of this species and report any findings to the EPPC to docu­ the Department of Environmental Resources Manage­ ment its spread in Florida. ment (DERM) in Dade County. This will likely raise the ire of the Florida Nursery Growers Association. 1bis Roger Hammer species warrants being regulated because it is already a Natural Areas Management serious weed in Hawaii and it is now demonstrating its Metro-Dade Park & Recreation Department Dwarf Papyrus - Not a Rose by Any Name...

You may run across a sedge offered for sale as a water variety of C. haspan L., a pantropical species considered garden ornamental with the moniker Dwarf Papyrus; it native to Florida. The correct Latin name for the species may also be labelled in Latin as haspan. Please is Cyperus prolifer Lam. (synonyms include C. isocladus be advised that the plant commonly carrying this nick­ Kunth and C. aequalis VahI). It is native to eastern and name in Florida is definitely not a dwarf form of papy­ southern , including Tanzania, Zanzibar, Mozam­ rus (Cyperlls papyrus L.), nor is it a cultivar form, or bique,and South Africa (TItiselton-Dyer 1902). Misap- Florida EPPC Newsletter Page 2

plication of Latin names in this case probably derives been noted - in Pasco County - by FDEP regional biolo­ from ambiguities in horticultural references: "Cyperus gist Rob Lovestrand, in King Lake and in a canal near a haspan viviparus ... maybe C prolifer" (Graf 1976, 1985) cypress strand. C. prolifer is available by catalog and has and "Cyperus papyrus... 'Nanus' : C. isocladus" (Bailey been sold in Miami, Wmter Park, Sarasota, and Talla­ and Bailey 1976). hassee. A specimen in our Ta\lahassee lab garden ap­ pears to be overwintering well. "Dwarf Papyrus" is Naturalized, spreading populations of C. prolifer certainly a plant to keep your eye out for. have been documented by Florida Department of Envi­ ronmental Protection (FDEP) regional biologist David Fb Identification Demmi for four lakes surrounded by residential devel­ opment in Highlands County: Crooked (on urbanized It is fairly easy to distinguish in the field. Look for a part of lake), Francis, Huntly, and Lotela. (Identification stoutish Cyperus sedge (to 0.6 m or so in height), with of a sample was confirmed by a specialist in sedge tax­ many flowering stems and few or no leaves (it has onomy, Richard Carter of Valdosta State University.) mostly bladeless sheaths, brownish in color), and with One lakeside homeowner was so distressed that an in­ no conspicuous leafy bracts subtending the inflores­ nocent planting had expanded into "strong colonies" cence (it has bracts, but they're quite small). The inflo­ she obtained a permit to control the population chemi­ rescence is distinctive: it has many slender, short cally. About the time she thought she had nearly eradi­ primary rays, or branches (as many as 50 - 100), all of cated it, she discovered several more colonies elsewhere nearly equal length. This flowerhead form makes C. on the lakshore. As the species name implies, the plant prolifer standout amongst our sedges. proliferates vegetatively as well as by seed. A new clump of more than a dozen stems can arise from just Kathy Burks, Bolanlst one old inflorescence that has fallen over into the water FDEP and taken root. Bureau of Aquatic Plants.

Occurrences of this species as a escapee from culti­ vation may not be limited to Highlands County. Since Demmi's reports last year, two other populations have Fb Literature cited Baily, L.H. and E.Z. Bailey. 1976. Hortus Third. Revised by staff, L.H. Baily hortorium, Cornell Univ. Macmillan Publishing, New York, NY Graf, A.B. 1976. Exotica series 3. 9th ed. Roehrs co., E. Rutherford, NJ Graf, A.B. 1985. Exotica series 4. 12th ed. Roehrs Co., E. Rutherford, NJ Thiselton-Dyer, W.T. 1902. Flora of Tropical Africa. Vol. vm: Pontederiaceae to . Reeve and Co., Ashford, Kent, England Oeceoclades maculata A Fast-spreading Newcomer to Florida

The tropical orchid Oeceoc1ades maclIlata (syn. Eulo­ While the genus Oeceoc1ades evolved in equatorial phidium macula tum) was first discovered in Florida by Africa, O. maclIlata is the only species in the genus that Dr. Robert Grimm while leading a group of botany stu­ is indigenous to both Africa and . The dents through Matheson Hammock (Dade County) in early European explores William Burchell collected the 1974 (Hammer, 1981). Since then, this species has rap­ type specimen of O.maculala at "Porto-Real" in Brazil on idly colonized virtually all of the hardwood forests March 24, 1829. There are also Florida native orchids throughout Dade County, including Everglades Na­ with an African distribution. Eulophia alta and Polys­ tional Park, and is now also known from Broward, Col­ tachya concrela are both indigenous to Africa as well as lier, Lee, Palm Beach, and Monroe Counties. It has the New World, and there is speculation that Eulophia formed extensive colonies on North Key Largo and oc­ alta was brought to the New World by African slaves curs within Long Key and Bahia Honda State Recreation who used the basal corms in folk medicine. There is also Areas in the Florida Keys. Plants taken to Gainesville in speculation that the newly-arrived Oeceoclades maculala 1988 by William Stem, Professor, University of Florida, underwent a natural expansion of range northward escaped cultivation and have survived the cold winters from South America as a result of gradual climatic of northern Florida's Alachua County (Stem, 1988). change (Huntley, 1991). U it did, indeed, arrive in Flor­ ida naturally, should it be accepted as a new addition to Florida EPPC Newsletter Page 3 our native flora? The possibility exists, of course, that it wood hammocks and tree orchards where it thrives in spread into Florida habitats from cultivated plants, and, leaf litter, not actually rooted into soil. under such conditions, it should be deemed an invasive exotic. However it got here, it is probably here to stay. O. maculata is currently listed in the Exotic Pest Plant Council's Category I list of Florida's most invasive spe­ O. maculata is a terrestrial species with mottled, two­ cies. To help document the spread of this rapidly dis­ tone green, longitudinally-keeled leaves that superfi­ persing orchid in Florida, it is requested that resource cially resemble members of the genus Sansevieria managers note its occurrence and report any findings to (Agavaceae). Erect flower spikes appear from the base Roger Hammer, Resource Management Supervisor, of the pseudobulbs, usually in September and October Natural Areas Management, 22200 Southwest 137 Ave­ in Southern Florida. Flowers are about 1/2 inch and nue, Miami, FL 33170, or call (305) 257-0904. bear pinkish-brown sepals and petals with a white lip that is adorned with two parallel pink blotches. The Roger Hammer disturbance caused by rainfall effectively pollinates the Natural Areas Management flowers (Gonzalez-Diaz and Ackerman, 1988) and seed Metro-Dade Park & Recreation pods are readily set. This is a species of shady hard- Deparrtment Fl:i SELECTED REFERENCES Gonzales-Diaz, N., and J. D. Ackerman, 1988. Pollination and fruit set in the orchid oeceoclades maculata. Lyndleyana 3: 150-155. Hammer, R. 1981. Finding new orchids: A contribution to the Drchidaceae of Florida. Fairchild Tropical Gardens Bulletin 36: 16-18. Huntley, B. 1991. How plants respond to climate change; migration rates, individualism and the consequences for plant communities. Ann. Bot. (London) 67: 15-22. Stem, W. 1988. The long-distance dispersal of Oeceoc/ades maculata. American Orchid Society Bulletin 57 (9): 90-971. De-vine intervention?

On April 8, Florida EPPC sponsored a workshop on During the afternoon, the group visited monstrous Lygodium micropJryllum, the Old World climbing fern, colonies of the fern in the Loxahatchee River corridor. which is causing great alarm as its range is expanding Old colonies were seen blanketing forest floors with root wildly in sub-tropical South Florida. South Florida masses, resembling those of Osmunda fern, four to six plant biolOgists are terrilied by the speed with which feet thick! Herbicide trials at Jonathan Dickinson State new colonies are being found and the speed with which Park showed that incredible amounts oflabor and moni­ the fern "twines" up and over entire wet forests. The toring can remove biomass and treat remaining plant plant often gains a foothold in the wet margins between "crowns." Such intensive, and expensive, efforts may mesic prairies and cypress heads. During prescribed reclaim some areas, but attendees agreed that USDA bums its relatively light-weight biomass threatens fire should be petitioned to include the plant in future bio­ safety as burning clumps of the fern are kited away in logical control investigations. heat plumes. Many questions remain regarding the bi­ ology of the plant including the transport and period of In summary, everyone agreed that the plant is pres­ viability of its spores in South Florida. ently South Florida's most invasive and threatening ex­ otic pest plant, with carrotwood running a close second. Fifty public and private sector resource managers It's clear that time is of the essence to launch the attack met in the Hobe Sound area, which is generally thought on this invader. The day's activities are being summa­ to be the area where the plant first became established rized for distribution. If you would like to receive this in Florida, and where its densest and largest summary, contact Mike Bodle at the South Florida Water Management District, (407) 687-6132. colonies currently are overtaking natural areas. The morning's program included presentations reviewing Dr. Dan Austin, Florida Atlantic University, opened the biology and management of various invasive exotic the workshop with an excellent overview of exotic vines vines before shifting to the primary focus, L. microphyl- in Florida. The following table summarizes all Category 1",". Several methods of attack, including fire, herbicide I and II vines on the EPPC list. A complete summary of applications, and manual removal of climbing fern his talk will be included in the workshop report. biomass highlighted the desperation of the involved land managers as they face this spreading gret'.Il plague. Florida EPPC Newsletter Page 4

Scientific Name Common Name Date Introduced Re850n Area of Nativity Abrus precatorius rosary pea pre-1932 ornamental Old World Tropics Antigonon leptopus coral vine pre-1916 ornamental Colubrina asiatica , lather leaf pre-1933 ornamental? SEAsia Cryptostegia madagascariensis rubber vine pre-1933 agriculture Dioscorea a/ata water yam pre-1949 food to Malay peninsula Dioscorea bulbifera air-potato 1905 agriculture SEAsia Epipremnum pinnatum pothos 1974 ornamental Soloman Islands Jasminum dicholomum Gold Coast jasmine ca 1906 ornamental tropical Africa (Ghana) Jasminum fluminense jasmine 1916 ornamental tropical Africa Jasminum sambac Arabian jasmine pre-1916 ornamental probably Lonicera japonica Japanese honeysuckle 1875 ornamental Japan Lygodium japonicum Japanese climbing fern 1932 ornamental temperate Asia Lygodium microphyl/um Old World climbing fern pre-1965 ornamental tropical Asia Macfadyena unguis-cali cats claw pre-1947 ornamental tropical America Merremia luberosa wood-rose pre-19B ornamental tropical America Paederia craddasiana skunk vine 1897 agriculture (fiber) SEAsia Passif/ora foelida stinking passion-flower 1960s ornamental tropical America Pueraria monlana kudzu 1899 agriculture and , Japan ornamental Senna bicapsularis climbing cassia pre-1933 ornamental tropical America Senna pendula climbing cassia pre-1933 ornamental South America Syngonium podophyl/ym arrowhead vine 1979 ornamental Mexico to Panama Wisteria sinensis Chinese wisteria pre-1949 ornamental China

"1 /rave become a distributer of weeds •.. I may escape havillg ellgraved all my tombstone 'Damllable Introducer of Weeds." David Fairchild, 1947 The World Grows Round My Door Sanibel Island declares War on "Bazillion" Pepper

Once again, the City of Sanibel is leading the charge against an invasive exotic plant. For more than a dec­ ade, melaleuca has been at the top of the island's "Most (un)Wanted" list -it's virtually eradicated from the com­ munity. Now Sanibel has turned its attention to Brazil­ ian pepper. The plant now covers at least one third of the barrier island. At a recent Citizens Pepper Squad "If you're go­ Workshop, organizer Connie Holsinger declared that ing to talk, talk; "Sanibel will be Pepper free by the year 20001' The three largest landowners on the island - J.N. "Ding" Darling if you're going to National Wildlife Refuge, Sanibel-Captiva Conserva­ shoot, shoot." tion Foundation (SCCF) and the City of Sanibel -have -Tuco (Tile instituted aggressive restoration programs to eradicate Good, the Bad, pepper from their lands. SCCF and the City of Sanibel and the Ugly) are pursuing outside funding to accelerate this habitat restoration. Over 500 acres of pepper have been treated with funds from governmental agencies, private donors and the Terra Foundation. Florida EPPC Newsletter PageS

Hay! Erik Johnson (FDEP) Got a bad case is looking for docu­ mentation of the of Dioscorea? spread of exotic plants by horses in Florida. Dioscorea sansibarensis, (904) 488-8666, email - that is. Keith Bradley and [email protected] George Gann are collect­ EP.STATE.FL.US ing information on it's range in South Florida. Report any occurances (in cultivation or the wild) to them at: (305) 248-0038.

Exotics Needed!

For those members heading up to Tallahassee for the May meeting, we are requesting you bring exotic plants from your area. We want to display the plants so everyone can become familiar and be able to identify these particular exotics. If any of the plants listed below are in your area and you have access to them, it would be greatly appreciated if you could bring one up to the meeting. Many mem­ bers know the plants only by name, it's time for all members to be able to put a "face" to that name. Please give Deborah Fiesler, a call at (904) 487-2600, so that she can check off the plant(s) you are bringing. Nephrolepis cordifolia (sword fern) Category I - Plants Needed Neyraudia reynaudiana (Burma reed, cane grass) Abrus precatorius (rosary pea) Oeceoelades maculata (ground orchid) Acacia auriculiformis (earleaf acacia) Pennisetum purpureunr (Napier grass) Ardisia elliptica (A. humilis) (shoebutton ardisia) Psidium guajava (guava) Asparagus densiflorus (asparagus fern) Psidium littorale (P. cattleianunr) (strawberry guava) Bischofia javanica (bischofia) Rhodomyrtus tomentosus (downy myrtle) Brachiaria mutica (Para grass) Scaevola taccada var. sericea (S. /rulescens, Calophyllum calaba (c. illophyllum) (Alexandrian laurel) S. sericea) (scaevola) Cassia coluteoides (Senna pendula) Scheff/era actinophylla (Brassaia actinophylla) (climbing cassia, Christmas senna) (schefflera) Cestrum diurnum (day jasmine) Schinus terebinthifolius (Brazilian pepper) Cinnamomum camphora (camphor tree) Solallum torvum (turkey berry) Eugellia uniflora (Surinam cherry) Solanum viarunr (tropical soda apple) Ficus microcarpa (F. lIitida,/. retusa var. nitida) (laurel fig) Syzygium cumini Gam bolan, Java plum) Hygrophila polysperma (green hygro) Tectaria incisa (incised halberd fern) Hymenachne amplexicaulis (West Indian marsh grass) Thespesia populnea (seaside mahoe) Ipomoea aquatica (water spinach) Tradescantiafluminensis (white-flowered wandering jew) Jasminum dichotomum (Gold Coast Jasmine) Jasminumfiuminense (jasmine) Category D - Plants Needed Lygodium microphyllum (Old World climbing fern) Leucaena leucocephala (lead tree) Macfadyena unguis·cati (cat's claw) Paederia cruddasiana (skunk vine, onion vine) Melaleuca quinquenervia (melaleuca) Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council 11th Annual Meeting - Tallahassee, Florida May 7-9, 1996 - DRAFT Meeting Agenda May 7 10:00 Field Trip 7:00 Exotic Pest Plant Workshop - Moderator 1:30 Board of Directors Meeting Greg Jubinsky MayS 7:30 Registration 8:30 Call to Order - Dan Thayer, Chairman 8:35 Welcome - Jeremy Crait, Florida Department of Environmental Protection 8:45 Chairman's Address - Dan Thayer, Chairman Moderator - Dan Thayer 9:00 Keynote Address - Dr. Richard Mack, Washington State University. "The Impact of Stochasticity and the Nacent Foci of Alien Plants" 9:30 Plant Community Response to Plant Removal: Considering Experimental Design - Dr. James Luken, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY 10:00 Break Moderator - Dr. Nancy Coile 10:15 Legislative,Actions - Tom Brown, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Tallahassee, FL 10:45 South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force and Its Relationship to Exotic Plant Management - Bill Zattau, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville, FL 11:15 Invasive Plant Management on the Right-ot-Way: Changing the way FOOT works - Jeff Castor, Florida Department of Transportation, Tallahassee, FL 11:45 Non-indigenous Invasive Plants: What Role Should IFAS Play? - Dr. Donn Shilling, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 12:15 Lunch 1:15 Florida EPPC Business Meeting - ELECTIONS Moderator - Amy Ferriter 2:00 Invasive Plants and the "Center" of Controversy - Dr. Randall Stocker, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 2:30 De-vine Intervention: A Report from the Florida EPPC Old World Climbing Fern Workshop - Mike Bodle, South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, FL 3:00 Break Moderator - Tony Pernas 3:15 Comparative Field testing of Methods to Control Brazilian Pepper (Schinus terebinthifolius) near Mangroves in Tampa Bay, FL - Robin Lewis, Lewis Environmental Services, Inc., Tampa, FL 3:45 Status of the Invasive Plant Data Base Inventory - Greg Jubinsky Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Tallahassee, FL 4:15 Observations on Exotic Pest Plant Spread into High Marsh Habitats in Southwest Florida, Robert Repenning, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, FI. Myers, FL

4:45 Adjourn 6:00Pool-side Social May 9 Moderator - Francois Laroche 9:00 Busting Peppers in Brevard County - Larry Mc Kenzie, Indian River Ground Services, Cocoa,FL 9:30 A Resource Management Approach to Exotic Pest Plant Control and a Case Study Using VELPAR ULW -Roger Clark, Lee County Parks and Recreation, Ft. Myers, FL 10:00 Managing Florida's Public Lands: "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" - Dan Clark, Florida Department of Environmental Protection Ft. Myers, FL and Greg Jubinsky, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Tallahassee, FL 10:30 Break Moderator - Roger Clark 10:45 Observations on the use of ARSENAL at low rates for the Control of Me/a/euca quinquenervia in a High Marsh Habitat - Heather Stafford, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Ft. Myers, FL 11:15 The Good News and The Bad News about Aquatic Soda Apple - Alison Fox, University of Florida, GainesviUe, FL 11:45 Florida Administrative Code 62C-52: The Prohibited Plant List - Rob Kipker, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Tallahassee, FL 12:15 Lunch Moderator - Dr. Ken Langeland 1:15 Biological Control of Brazilian Peppertree, A Status~eport - Dr. Dale Habeck, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 1:45 Japanese Climbing Fern and other Exotics in State Parks Florida's Panhandle­ Mark Ludlow, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Marianna , FL 2:15 Mitigation Banking: A Private View on a Public-Private Endeavor - Ken Passerella, Kevin Erwin Consultants, Ft. Myers, FL 2:45 Break Moderator - Greg Jubinsky 3:00 Florida Keys Invasive Exotic Vegetation Removal Project Phase I: Mapping and Assessment - Curtis Kruer, Florida Keys Environmental Mitigation Trust Fund, Summerland Key, FL 3:30 New Chairman's Closing Statements 4:00 Adjourn Posters Aerial Survey for Fouir Major Invasive Exotic Plants in Florida, Amy Ferriter, South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, FL Community Efforts in Exotic Eradication Along the Ruskin Inlet, Shelly Allen, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Tampa, FL Aerial Treatments of Melaleuca in South Florida, Francois Laroche, South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, FL Living Display N arne that Plant! The display will feature Category I and II plants. Member should enjoy the challenge of connecting the names with the plants. Deborah Fiesler and Greg Jubinsky, Florida Depart­ ment of Environmental Protection, Tallahasssee, FL with special assistance from EPPC members. Florida EPPC Newsletter Page 6

to push their herbicide agenda nationwide. These Pest Plant Councils are merely front groups for the multi-bil­ lion dollar herbicide industry... Like other pseudo-envi­ Ain't no misbehavin'? ronmental front groups, they push destructive corporate interests in the guise of ecological concern." Weeping bottlebrush (Callistemon vimi­ nalis), long held as a "well behaved" Aus­ "Also ominous is the fact that during Adolph Hitler's tralian ornamental is now escaping from "Third Reich", the National Socialists (Nazi Party) had planted areas. It's showing up along ditch­ an identical program to rid the landscape of 'foreign' banks, canal ROWs, and in natural areas. It plants.... The extension of the Nazi pseudoscience of ra­ has been officially nominated for EPPC's cial purity to the natural world is chillingly identical to the modem anti-exotics agenda, down to the details of 1997 Most Invasive Species List (the list is 'genetic contamination'. With the current rise of racism, updated every two years) . If you know ar­ immigrant-scapegoating, & other noxious, un-Ameri­ eas where this plant has escaped cultiva­ can ideologies, we must be prepared to hold all those tion, please send documentation to Dr. Dan who are promoting the anti-exotics frenzy personally Austin, Florida Atlantic University, Dept. of responsible for their part in legitimizing a pseudos­ Biology, 777 Glades Rd., Boca Raton, FL cience which leads directly to the horrors we saw in the 1940s. Clearly, 'eco-fascists' is not too strong a term to 33431. describe these people."

" ... we must begin to educate the public concerning the pseudo scientific foundations of the anti-exotic movement, their bureaucratic & herbicide industry con­ I guess everyone's nections, their origins in an ideology of race-hatred, and their agenda of total control. We must form watchdog entitled to their own groups to monitor the Exotic Pest Plant Councils, and • • educate lawmakers and environmental organizations opinion ... which support these bad laws... For biologists, we need to establish a Society for Biological Enrichment, and publish a peer-reviewed Journal of Ecological Enrich­ The fol/owing are excerpts from an essay written by J.L. ments, for research papers pertaining to this new field. Hudson, Seedsman. It was published in the 1996 Ethnobo­ Interested biologists should contact me" tanical Catalog of Seeds, Catalog Number 57, January, 1996. If anyone's interested, they can contact Mr. Hudson at the liThe extremist anti·exotic movement continues to following address: J.L Hudson, Seedsman. Star Route 2, Box grow. At the 1995 meeting of the California Exotic Pest 337 La Honda, CA 94020. Plant Council, an agreement was reached among exist­ ing state Councils to create a national umbrella Council

Florida Plants Web Site

USF Institute for Systematic Botany web site includes distributional maps of all (4,000+) species of native and naturalized plants (in­ cluding exotic pest plants), known to occur in Florida. You can find it at: "http:/www.usf.edu/ -isb /". The maps can be found under "projects" - "atlas" in the hom page menu. Contact Dr. Richard Wunderlin f:~~§~~~~ more info. (813) 974-2359, or e-mail: [email protected] Florida EPPC Newsletter Page 7

The Exotic Plant Press Campbell, ET. 1994. Killer pigs, vines and Update: fungi: Alien species threaten native ecosystems. Endangered Species Technical Bulliten 19(5): 3-5. The Sarasota County Commis­ Carr, M.H., ed. 1994. A Naturalist in Florida: sion voted to add carrotweed, er, A Celebration of Eden. Yale University Press, New carrotwood (Cupaniopsis ana­ Haven, Conn. cardiodes) to the County's Intro­ duced Species Ordinance. The Creed, R.P. and S.P. Sheldon. 1995 Weevils ordinance prohibits the importa­ and watermilfoil: Did a North American herbi­ tion, transportation, sale, propaga­ vore cause the decline of an exotic plant? Ecologi­ tion, and planting of listed plants. cal Applications 5:1113-1121.

Fensham, R.J., R.J Fairfax, and R.J Cannell. 1994. The invasion of Lantana camera L. in Forty Mile Scrub National Park, north Queensland. Australian Journal of Ecology 19:297-305.

Groves, R.H., 1994. Australian Vegetation. Cambridge University Press, New York, NY.

Hyam, R., and R. Pankhurst. 1995. A Concise Dictionary of Plant Names. Oxford University Press, New York, NY.

Lockhart, C. S. 1996. Aquatic heterophylly as a survival strategy in Melaleuca quinquenervia (Myrtaceae). Canadian Journal of Botany 74:243-246.

Lonsdale, W.M. 1994. Inviting trouble: intro­ duced pasture species in northern . Austra­ lian Journal of Ecology 19:345-354. [Survey of 2500 introduced species helps predict weedy tendencies.]

Marsh, L., Porter, D.R. and Salvesen, D., eds. Forthcoming. Mitigation Banking: Theory and Prac­ tice. Island Press. [Provides an overview of mitiga­ tion banking in the and examines the F.Y.I. key issues and concerns - from providing assurances Question: Just what information am I sup­ to determining the value of credits.] posed to include on a herbarium specimen label? AIl.wer: Herbarium labels should contain at Shaw, D.T and Jacobs, K.J. 1996. The function­ least the foUowing information: State; County; ality of melaleuca-dominated wetlands in South specific locality, preferably with latitude and lon­ Florida: a critical review of scientific literature. gitude or township, section and range; notes on aspects of the plant not visible in preserved speci­ South Florida Water Management District Technical mens such as habitat, flower color, flower odor, Memorandum. frequency, associated species; date of coUection; name of coUector(s); coUector numbers, if any. If Sheldon, S.P. and Creed, R.P. 1995. Use of a na­ known, these data should be headed by the name of the species and the family name. -Dr. Dan tive insect as a biological control for an introduced Austin, Florida Atlantic University weed. Ecological Applications 5(4): 1122. Florida EPPC Newsletter PageS Meetings

May 7-10 Fire and Ecosystem Management: Shift­ May 30 - June 2 16th Annual Florida Native Plant ing the Paradigms from Suppression to Prescription, Society Conference, Sarasota, FL. Contact Leah Wilcox, Boise,ID. Contact L. Brennan, (904)893-4153. (941) 366-9716.

May 7-9 Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council Annual June 3 1996 GPS Conference, Minneapolis, MN. Meeting, Tallahassee, FL. Contact Jackie Smith, (407) Contact David Zenk, (612)374-5800, e-mail: 791-4720. [email protected].

May 17 New Invasive Exotic Plants - Coastal Re­ June 24-27 Airborne Remote Sensing: Technology, source Management Workshop, Naples, FL. Contact Measurements, and Analysis, San Francisco, CA. Con­ Gary Lytton, (941) 775-8845. tact R. Rogers, ERlM Conferences, (313)994-1200.

May 16-17 Ecosystems Restoration and Creation August 4-8 American Institute of Biological Sci­ Annual Conference, Tampa, FL. Contact F. Webb, (941) ences Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. Contact AIBS 757-2104 Meeting Department, (202)628-1500.

May 23 - 25 People-Plant Interactions in Urban October 23-26 Call for Papers - 1996 Natural Areas Areas, San Antonio, TX. Contact J. Zajicek, (409)845- Conference, SI. Charles, IL. Send NAA Abstracts to 4482. Brad Semel, Illinois Department of Natural Resources, 110, James Rd., Spring Grove, IL 60081. ADS

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Don't Forget: General elections will be held during the Council business meeting on May 8. (Nominations for Chairman and Board of Directors seats will also be taken from the floor during the Business Meeting.)

There are two Board seats open. .-

Nominees for the Board of Directors: \ ,. Roger Hammer, Metro-Dade County Natural Area; Section David Jones, Everglades National Park Ken Langeland, University of Florida, IFAS Jeff Mullahey, University of Florida, IFAS Robert Pemberton, United States Department of Agriculture

Chairman nominee: Greg Jubinsky, Florida Department of Environmental Protection

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~t'offlIa Exotic Pest Plant Council Amy Ferriter, Editor I • " Post Office Box 24680 -~ West Palm Beach, Florida 33416-4680

Member. 1996 Allison Fox PO Box 110500 Gainesville, FL 32611