List of Invasive Alien Flora of India

Shakeel Anwar

04-OCT-2016 15:54

Alien Species that threaten native plants and animals of other aspects of biodiversity are called alien invasive species. They occur in all groups of plants and animals, as competitors, predators, pathogens and parasites, and they have invaded almost every type of native ecosystem.

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Here, we are giving the list of Invasive Alien Flora of India which is very helpful in the preparation of competitive examinations like UPSC-prelims, SSC, State Services, NDA, CDS, and Railways etc.

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Invasive Alien Flora of India

Invasive Alien Flora of India	Nativity, Distribution & Features
Needle Bush	Nativity: Tropical South America Distribution in India: Throughout Features: A shrub or small tree. Occasional in thorny scrub and dry degraded forests and often creates close thickets.
Black Wattle	Nativity: South East Australia Distribution in India: Western Ghats Features: Introduced for afforestation in Western Ghats. Regenerates rapidly after fire and forms dense thickets. It is distributed in forests and grazing lands in high altitude areas.
Goat Weed	Nativity: Tropical America Distribution in India: Throughout Features: Aggressive colonizer. Troublesome weed in gardens, cultivated fields and forests.
Alternanthera Paronychioides	Nativity: Tropical America Distribution in India: Throughout Features: Occasional weed along edges of tanks, ditches and in marshy lands.
Prickly Poppy	Nativity: Tropical Central & South America Distribution in India: Throughout Features: Aggressive colonizer. Common winter season weed in cultivated fields, scrub lands and fringes of forest.
Blumea Eriantha	Nativity: Tropical America Distribution in India: Throughout Features: Aggressive colonizer. Abundant along railway track , road sides and degraded forests land
Palmyra, Toddy Palm	Nativity: Tropical Africa Distribution in India: Throughout Features: Aggressive colonizer. Cultivated and self sown, occasionally found to be gregarious nearby cultivated fields, scrub lands and waste lands.
Calotropis/ Madar, Swallo Wort	Nativity: Tropical Africa Distribution in India: Throughout Features: Aggressive colonizer. Common in cultivated fields, scrub lands and waste lands.
Datura, Mad Plant, Thorn Apple	Nativity: Tropical America Distribution in India: Throughout Features: Aggressive colonizer. Occasional weed on disturbed ground.
Water Hyacinth	Nativity: Tropical America Distribution in India: Throughout Features: Aggressive colonizer. Abundant in still or slow floating waters. Nuisance for a aquatic ecosystem.
Impatiens, Balsam	Nativity: Tropical America Distribution in India: Throughout Features: Aggressive colonizer. Common along railway tracks; also runs wild in gardens.
Ipomoea/ the pink morning glory	Nativity: Tropical America Distribution in India: Throughout Features: Aggressive colonizer. Common weed of marshy lands and along the edges of tanks and ditches.
Lantana camara/ Lantana, Wild Sage	Nativity: Tropical America Distribution in India: Throughout Features: Aggressive colonizer. Common weed of forests, plantations, habitation, waste lands and scrubs lands.
Black Mimosa	Nativity: Tropical North America Distribution in India: Himalaya, Western Ghats Features: Aggressive colonizer. It invades water courses and seasonally flooded wetlands.
Touch-Me-Not, Sleeping Grass	Nativity: Brazil Distribution in India: Throughout Features: Aggressive colonizer. Common weed of cultivated fields, scrubs lands and degraded forests.
4’ O Clock plant	Nativity: Peru Distribution in India: Throughout Features: Aggressive colonizer. Runs wild in gardens and near habitation.
Parthenium/ Congress grass, Parthenium	Nativity: Tropical North America Distribution in India: Throughout Features: Aggressive colonizer. Common weed of cultivated fields, forests, overgrazed pastures, waste lands and gardens.
Prosopis juliflora/Mesquite	Nativity: Mexico Distribution in India: Throughout Features: Aggressive colonizer. Common weed of waste lands, scrub lands and degraded forests.
Townsend grass	Nativity: Tropical West Asia Distribution in India: Throughout Features: Very common along streams and banks of rivers

Biological invasion by alien species is recognised as one of the major threats to native species and ecosystems. The effects on biodiversity are enormous and often irreversible.

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