Land Plants - invasive

Shining Geranium (Geranium lucidum) on Jul 14, 2008

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Dear Ms. Jacqueline Wilson.

Thanks for your report of shining geranium! This shade tolerant annual rapidly invades undisturbed forest understories and forms monoculture patches that replace native plant communities. I will forward your report to the Mid Willamette Cooperative Weed Management area and they will decide how to best respond. Thanks again for your report! I hope you will keep looking for and reporting new invaders. After prevention, early detection and rapid response is our only hope againt new invaders like shining geranium. Thanks!

Tania Siemens
Oregon Sea Grant Extension/The Nature Conservancy
tania.siemens@oregonstate.edu

Tania Siemens
Aug. 4, 2008, 2:43 a.m.