Healthy Communities
of Henry County
HC-RIPS: Henry County
Removes Invasive Plants
Projects:
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"100 Days of Honeysuckle" - Jan thru Mar every year. (3-5 every day).
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"Weedwrangles" - spring every year. Contact us if you want to help!
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Plantings​
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Wildflower Walks
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Prairie Walks
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Volunteers:
Work mostly at local parks. They help to cut, spray, and remove invasive plants. Providing room for our native plants (wildflowers, trees, etc.) to thrive!
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765-524-1706
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Facebook: "rippytheredfox"
Identification:
Shrub growing about 6 feet tall in forests. Leaves are opposite. White flowers in May/June. Red berries in fall. Hollow stems.
Fills woodlands and smothers all plant life beneath its branches. Berries non-nutritious for birds. Branches allow predators to get bird's eggs.
Tall shrub gets up to 20 feet tall with smooth gray bark. Alternate leaves have a silver undersides and wavy edges.
Very aggressive. Grows into impenetrable thickets and chokes out all native vegetation.
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765-524-1706
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Facebook: "rippytheredfox"
Upright tree with flaky gray bark and stubby thorn-like twigs. White flowers and smells bad.
Fills forest understories and meadows with dense populations, out competing good native trees.
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765-524-1706
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Facebook: "rippytheredfox"
Grows on forest floor up to 4 feet tall with triangular, sharp-toothed leaves and small white flowers in a cluster at the top of the stem.
Displaces wildflowers, poisons the soil, inhibits tree and plant growth, kills native butterfly.
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765-524-1706
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Facebook: "rippytheredfox"
Eradication
Description of tools. Where to cut plant. Protective gear, etc.
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Monthly meetings: First Monday of every month. - 6 pm - on Zoom.
Find link at hcrips.org
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765-524-1706
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Facebook: "rippytheredfox"
'Rippy' the red Fox
SICIM: State of Indiana Cooperatives Invasives Management (many resources to manage and learn about invasive plants)
https://www.sicim.info/invasive-plant-of-the-month
SICIM: Indiana General Chemical Control Recommendations (details on how to treat invasives)
https://www.sicim.info/invasive-plant-of-the-month
Link to Facebook page showing how to identify Honeysuckle in the winter: https://www.facebook.com/hsteussy/posts/pfbid0oJSUSkNV96cpn5AymheELgWrzjUzKyqcrjpfJYEkyZaez8d7xmQAYQrU3PvQJNYql
Link to Facebook HC-RIPS Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/rippytheredfox
Good article on invasive strategy:
https://nifa.wildapricot.org/Prioritizing-Invasive-Control/
Before and After
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