MORE WAYS YOU CAN HELP MANY AVAILABLE TO WATER For more information on water and aquatic invaders in Build your water ARE INVASIVE the marketplace (AIM), visit away from waterways and www.TakeAIM.org/card flood-prone areas. If introduced into our waterways Rinse plants before -either accidentally or intentionally- planting to remove they can reduce the amount of animals, eggs and other food available to and wildlife plants or parts. and change how ecosystems function. Weed out uninvited plants. They can also cost millions to eradicate or control. Produced by Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant & Illinois Natural Seal unwanted plants in a History Survey, Prairie Research Institute in partnership plastic bag and place them Growing only non-weedy or with the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network, Loyola in the trash. If possible, University Chicago, Environmental Change Initiative at regionally native plants is one way the University of Notre Dame, The Conservancy, freeze the bag before you can help protect our natural and the PIJAC, USFWS and NOAA HabitattitudeTM disposal. areas from aquatic invaders. campaign (www.habitattitude.net). Funding for this program is provided by the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. ©2015 The Board of Trustees of the University Never release plants or of Illinois. IISG-15-021 animals into waterways. Asclepias incarnata (swamp milkweed) Lobelia cardinalis (cardinal flower) Lemna minor (common duckweed) GROW THESE NON-INVADERS Caltha palustris (marsh marigold) Mimulus ringens (Allegheny monkey flower) Nelumbo lutea (American lotus) Decodon verticillatus (swamp loosestrife) Orontium aquaticum (golden club) Nuphar advena (spatterdock) Glyceria canadensis (rattlesnake manna grass) Peltandra virginica (green arrow arum) odorata (fragrant water lily) Hibiscus moscheutos (crimsoneyed rosemallow) Pontederia cordata (pickerelweed) Ceratophyllum demersum (hornwort) versicolor (blue flag iris) (broadleaf arrowhead) Elodea canadensis (American waterweed) (soft rush) Saururus cernuus (lizard's tail) Potamogeton pectinatus (sago pondweed) Justicia americana (American water-willow) Schoenoplectus pungens (common three-square) Liatris spicata (dense blazing star) Sparganium eurycarpum (great bur-reed)

Acorus calamus (European sweetflag) Nasturtium officinale (watercress) Nymphoides peltata (yellow floating heart) AVOID THESE INVADERS Alternanthera philoxeroides (alligatorweed) Phragmites australis (common reed) Egeria densa (anacharis) Butomus umbellatus (flowering rush) Stratiotes aloides (water soldier) Limnophila sessiliflora (dwarf ambulia) Glyceria maxima (reed manna grass) Typha angustifolia (narrowleaf cattail) Myriophyllum aquaticum (parrot feather) Houttuynia cordata (chameleon plant) Aponogeton distachyos (cape pondweed) Myriophyllum spicatum (Eurasian watermilfoil) - Marginal Iris pseudacorus (yellow flag iris) Callitriche stagnalis ( water-starwort) Najas minor (brittle waternymph) - Floating Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife) Hydrocharis morsus-ranae (European frogbit) Potamogeton crispus (curlyleaf pondweed) - Submerged Marsilea quadrifolia (European waterclover) Nymphoides cristata (crested floating heart)