We noticed its first appearance in the Baddeck area six years ago.... Being a plantaholic, I notice pretty or unusual plants like a bloodhound. But it was not until we took this photo at Isle Madame, and visiting Louisbourg, where it completely dominates many areas that we started watching closely....
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| Angelica in seed, having overwhelmed a field c. MB Whitcomb 2013 |
It moved the entire length of the Bay Road to Baddeck in three years, and infested the opposite side of the bay in a year. While we were living in Marble Mountain, we watched it advance far faster than the purple loosestrife (which limits itself to wetlands).
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| Marble Mountain 2012 c. MB Whitcomb 2013 |
This year we are frantically pulling it out of the garden, the banks of our stream, the ditches, the fiddlehead fern beds, and every place we can imagine.
It is consuming yards, fields, streams, ditches, and coastal habitats at a rate that keeps me awake at night with worry. Can anyone else see this?
I believe it can be eliminated in areas like Baddeck where it is tightening its grip.
It is the fastest moving invasive we have, spreading along roads and watercourses. It is poorly documented by the media and people think it is "pretty" often mowing around it, or they confuse it with giant Hogweed and people are afraid to touch it.
Fortunately for me, the good people in New Brunswick are paying attention, so that those who only believe what is on the internet and not what the person in front of them is saying: http://www.nbisc.ca/species/angelicasylvestris.html
OUR ASSESSMENT AND APPROACH
Fact Sheets: http://www.weedinfo.ca/en/weed-index/view/id/ANKAT
http://tcpermaculture.blogspot.ca/2012/04/permaculture-plants-wild-angelica.html
http://nativeplants.evergreen.ca/search/view-plant.php?ID=06212
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