I was busy pulling this dastardly invasive from my property this afternoon. What a pain. WI is being swarmed with invasives in ways that most people can't keep up. 'Had my hands more than full with Buckthorn, Wild parsnip, & honeysuckle already. Now this 1:

https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/Invasives/fact/Euonymus.html

It's bright red right now & sticks out like a sore thumb, making it easy to spot. It is easy to pull if it is small.

Here in Ohio, lots of people plant burning bush as an ornamental in their landscaping. I have never seen it growing in the wild here. It must not grow well from seeds here.

We have huge problems with bush honeysuckle, Autumn olive and multiflora rose. Honeysuckle forms huge thickets you have to crawl to get through here. It kills most of the saplings from trees by shading them out. It knocks down the visibility in many woods.

Keith

Honeysuckle increases wildfire risk too.

As for burning bush, I'm not exactly sure how it spreads. I'm looking into that. I don't see a seed pod on it. The people I bought the house from had 1 as an ornamental and I think my outbreak is from that.

When I lived in IL for 10 years we had a burning bush and it never spread/propagated. Kind of wish it would have as I'd have lined our yard with it.

Burning bush gets an orange berry, that usually has a little cover made of red, fleshy petals. I don't think it gets berries every year. Some years the bushes are truly loaded with berries. It sells for pretty good money here. I think the bushes are usually cloned from cuttings.

Keith

https://www.hobbyseeds.com/euonymus-alatus-burning-bush-10.html

Don't buy it. I see this link tells about the plant. I also notice in red font it says not for sale in Wi. I can vouch for the reason for that disclaimer. You might think this bush looks good in a yard, but wait until it gets into woods.

I cut the big ornamental down a few years ago, & have been trying to control the spread since. Maybe it doesn't seed when it is small. I didn't notice any seeds on the bushes I pulled today. I canvass much of my property for various reasons each year, so I've been seemingly able to remove it before it gets large.

I hate invasives. I have probably spent well over 1000 hours removing honeysuckle in my life.

I have 2 invasive biannuals on my farm garlic mustard and poison hemlock, that are terrible too. Some of the poison hemlock gets over 14 feet high on my farm.

I think bamboo will be the biggest problem invasive in the US at some point. It can take well over 100 years to seed, but when it does it can put out millions of seeds that birds spread. Most of the bamboo in the US is to young to have seeded yet.

They need to stop allowing invasive plants to be introduced.

I hope you can get the burning bush eradicated.

Keith

Thanks Keith.

I agree with your points (though I have not heard of bamboo around here).

Garlic mustard is supposed to be the big 1 we are to watch for around here. The scary part is I hear loggers spread garlic mustard

I attend a lot of invasive seminars put on by govt & non profits. It's an evolving issue and a person almost needs to be retired to have the time to attempt to contain them it seems. This year I applied for my 1st ever grant, & received $735 cost sharing to help the fight on my 3 parcels in our county. 'Do nothing' is not an option.

I pulled up the wiki page on burning bush as I thought we had a native one, we do. But on this one it looks as if the species and certain cultivars and indeed highly invasive while most selected ornamental cultivars are not. Did not say why so I assume something like sterile hybrid or not self fertile on those that aren't.

There are at least two native Eunonymous. Eastern and western wahoo are both native to the US but as I understand them, somewhat particular in their site and not often found.

I think the 1 I had was bad, & I'm still trying to eradicate it. At least it is bright red right now so is easy to see to pull it.

Mine are loaded with seed right now, if you want some send me a PM.

Over here the b. bush that grow in heavy shade are greener than red.
Nasty little jaggers.

The P. Hemlock is headed my way from the South.

Is Jap Maple bad?
I hate to hate everything lol. Should I cut them NOW?

Something made a difference to the multiflora, not really sure maybe cyclic.

A friend pointed out tree of heaven, with help of his telephone cam.

Glad you guys are attentive.

'try to be, but it is tough & depressing. I spend more time fighting invasives on my property than I do hunting it. And ya just wonder what's coming next. I'm teetering on the point of not being able to own/manage land anymore. I just don't have time to deal with the invasives, & what makes it worse is many of my neighbors don't do anything about it. I scored a grant to help me & it's still really tough.

The ones I'm picking are small and don't seem to have seeds yet, but maybe I should carry a 5 gallon pail with me when I pull 'em

I wonder why it spreads in some places and not others? Maybe different variants? Lived at that place in IL for 10 years and the bush never got very large or spread at all.

Sometimes it depends on how people dispose of their problematic plant. Some people limb it up & throw it on their burn pile. Well if that burn pile is in the woods it can spread in somewhat of a hurry

There is some kind of bug or mite getting to the multiflora is what I have been told.

I have burning bush as a ornamental shrub one the one side of my house .It does spread some by underground sprouts growing out from the main base of the shrub . But it is easy to contain where I have it planted And yes it is considered an invasive .And I wish I had planted something else there 40 years ago But back than and still now it is sold by many local nurseries The bottom line is if it is and invasive it needs to be controlled and or if possible removed completely . Here in PA we have Multiflora, Russian & Autumn Olive and Mile A Minute growing everywhere The first 3 where promoted as wildlife cover for many years .It was planted through out the million plus acres of State Game Lands in PA as a food and wildlife cover plant .And the Mile A Minute was imported from China by a local nursery here in south central PA It is a vine like plant that grows fast hence Mile A Minute .It has small but nasty thorns and it produces blue berries that birds love to eat And therefore it gets transported quickly .It kills easy with spray but there is anew patch of it growing somewhere nearby most likely As for the multiflora rose and olive invasive my theory is the ones that came up with the idea of planting them throughout the state of PA should be brought back to life and forced to crawl through it for the next 50 years as a reminder of being careful for what you wish for .

might be rose rosette disease...

https://extension.okstate.edu/fact-sheets/rose-rosette-disease.html