Observed arrival · 2026-10-24
Understory brings outbreak thinking to invasive plants
A conservation tool for identifying invasive plants, forecasting their spread, and helping volunteer stewards plan workdays.
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- The page reports 180 of Massachusetts’ 351 cities and towns listed as infested, and a forecast evaluated against 2026 listings.
Field notes
The Massachusetts timeline combines state infestation listings with iNaturalist sightings, and the page notes that these counts can diverge: it reports 27 listed towns by the end of 2023 but only 12 sightings posted to iNaturalist that year. The plant-identification example names Oriental bittersweet and describes a decision threshold intended to avoid mistakenly pulling native plants. Photos on the page are credited to Rajarshi Mandal.
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