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 East Brunswick, NJ, USA, 2021, from whole plant to close-up.
📏 Real size: Tree 30–45 ft. Compound leaves 10–15 in; berries ⅓ in.
Amur corktree is invasive: Planted as a street tree; female trees rain down berries that create dense seedling carpets in Long Island parks and preserves. 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.