Five-leaved Akebia

 

Five-leaved Akebia (Akebia quinata) is an invasive vine. It's tough and hard to pull up successfully.

Golden Bamboo

 

Incredibly nasty stuff although the invasion front is relatively slow.

Wineberry Plants Spreading

 

Wineberry is trying to spread in this area. The plants are very aggressive, spreading both by seed and by sprouting from the tips of the long, arching canes where they contact the ground.

Wineberry

 

Wineberry plants have many bristles like these. Work gloves are imperative for pulling them up.

Invasive Wisteria and English Ivy

 

Notice the writhing appearance of the multiple vines of Wisteria twisting around each other as they climb into the trees overhead.

More Lesser Celandine

 

So pretty and yet so bad in our area due to its rampant spreading through floodplains and other areas.

Japanese Honeysuckle and Wisteria Vines

 

This Leyland Cypress is festooned with huge Japanese Honeysuckle vines (approaching an inch in diameter, which is very large in my experience anyway) and at least one Wisteria vine, showing a straight line angling to lower right. Both are exotic invasive plants in the mid-Atlantic area.