Please help identify an invasive, woody plant

hyacin

6 years ago

last modified: 6 years ago

Seattle; Climate zone 8b.

Whatever this is, it is taking over a hillside. The stuff even grows through ivy as you can see. Thank you in advance.

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floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
6 years ago
Something in the Ericaceae along the lines of a blueberry. I'm very sceptical that it is an invasive species, unlike the Ivy. The Name That Plant Forum or the NW Forum might be able to help id it more precisely.
lisanti07028
6 years ago
floral uk, you are amazing. Standing on your shoulders, I looked up the whole Ericacaea family, and there was a picture of Gaultheria shallon, a shrubby thicket-maker native to the PNW. OP, check here:

https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=gash

It's pretty ironic, a native plant overcoming the invasive ivy.
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The leaves can look a bit like dayflower. Here's a link that might help. When it mentions a "ligule" it means a membranous bit of tissue on the inside of the leaf where it meets the stem. Sometimes the ligule can have hairs in panic grasses. Here is a link that might be useful: Deer-tongue Panic Grass
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hyacin
Original Author
6 years ago
Wow you guys are good. I'd leave the stuff if it wasn't obliterating our juniper hedges. It just grows right through and turns into a bush shading everything out...40% of the hedge is basically gone. Tough stuff, but it looks like birds like it...and we like our birds.
windberry zone5a BCCanada
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Gaultheria shallon berries are edible and tasty, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaultheria_shallon#Edibility. You are lucky to have so may of them, and without planting and taking care of them.

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