Play · Grades 6–12 · Adults · about 4 min
🔁 Plant It Instead
Ten invasives you will recognize from Long Island yards. For each, choose the native that gives you the same thing, fall color, screening, flowers, without the damage. Your correct answers become a shopping list.
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More views: one individual photographed in South End, Burlington, VT, USA, 2023, from whole plant to close-up.
📏 Real size: Vine 3–6 ft. Flowers ¼ in; pods 2–3 in.
Pale swallow-wort is invasive: Like black swallow-wort, a deadly decoy for monarch eggs and an aggressive meadow invader. Which native fills the same role in a garden?
Keyboard: 1–3 to answer, Enter for next.
Swaps follow Cornell’s Alternatives to Ornamental Invasive Plants and our own experience. See the Resources page for where to buy.