Invasive Plants Expert Coming to Wrentham

Learn to identify the plants invading your yard – and what you can do to control them.

Learn about Wrentham’s Backyard Invasive Plants on Tuesday, May 12th at 7:00 pm, in the Sweatt Meeting Room at the Fiske Public Library.

Invasives are non-native plants that aggressively invade natural areas and displace our native vegetation. Lacking their usual predators and parasites, they have a competitive edge over native species. Invasives are one of the greatest threats to our biodiversity because they out-compete, displace, or outright kill native species. Karro Frost will explain what these plants are, what they look like – and what you can do about them in your own backyard!

Karro Frost is a Conservation Botanist with the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife’s Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program. She is one of the state’s foremost experts on invasive plants. Karro is also Treasurer of the New England Botanical Club and a member of the Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions.

Sponsored by the Wrentham Open Space Committee.