Lincoln School
Grade 4-5
Mr. McGuan

Lakewood City Schools
Elementary School Pathfinders
Lincoln School LRC
Lakewood Public Library

 

Weeds Gone Wild: Alien Plant Invaders of Natural Areas
A public education project of the Plant Conservation Alliance Alien Plant Working Group. Provides information about the threat and impact of invasive alien plants to native ecosystems. Illustrated fact sheets for a variety of plants with descriptions, habitat, native range, distribution and management approaches. Includes good background information on the problem of invasive alien plants, plus links to other Internet resources.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Invasive Species Program
Activities to prevent and control invasive plant and animal species that severely impact the lands and waters of the United States, including resources managed within the National Wildlife Refuge System. Includes links to information about several species.

INVADERS Database System
This site is designed to help land management and weed regulatory agencies detect and track weed distribution. It's focus is five states in the northwest but includes noxious weed listings for all 48 contiguous states.
Invasivespecies.gov
A comprehensive site to facilitate sharing of information among government and other agencies. Plant profiles provides links to Web resources for a variety of threatening plants.

The Nature Conservancy Wildland Invasive Species Team
Check out the Q&A and the Links section. There are also a number of items here that can be downloaded.

Invasive Plants of Ohio
General information and factsheets on individual species.

Identifying Noxious Weeds of Ohio
From the Ohio State University Extension Service. 

Great Lakes Information Network
- Invasive Species in the Great Lakes Region
- TEACH Great Lakes: Non-native Invasive Species in the Great Lakes

Impacts of Introduced Species in the United States 
Many non-native plants/animals/pathogens that are brought into the country are quite harmless, but about one in seven becomes an invader! An article from Consequences, a publication of US Global Change Research Information Office.

Harmful Non-Indigenous Species in the United States - 1993 Report of the Office of Technology Assessment
A government report in pdf format. Take a look at Chapter 1: Summary, Issues, and Options for good statistics and charts.

Non-native invasive plants of the Midwest and Eastern United States 
A handy listing from a wildflower seed producer.

Plants Database
U.S. Department of Agriculture site. Contains a special section on Invasive and Noxious plants with reports by state.

NatureServe 
An "Online Encyclopedia of Life" from the Association for Biodiversity Information. This database contains "conservation status, taxonomic, and distribution information for over 50,000 plants, animals, and ecological communities in the United States and Canada."