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> floral --00000000000001d1ca05a8463073 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have a swampy spot on my small property in Windsor where I would like to establish native phragmites. If anyone knows of a patch nearby please reach out. *Dave in Curry's Corner* David Simpson (902) 580 8007 david.sonsimp@gmail.com On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 9:25 PM Nick Hill <fernhillns@gmail.com> wrote: > * Phragmites australis *ssp.* australis *occurs at various places on many > of the 100 series highways (103, 101, 102 , 107 ). While it is good to > eliminate the plant where feasible, there is a trade-off between the pain > (e.g. the disturbance of herbiciding areas of the Tantramar) and the gain= . > From a terrestrial wetland point of view, I can't vouch for the > biodiversity value of the Tantramar--it seems an anthropogenically > disturbed landscape, but correct me if mistaken. There are good reasons t= o > eliminate *Phragmites australis *ssp.* australis *where it is scattered > along these 100 series highways because they are small patches and condui= ts > to high biodiversity wetlands throughout the province...e.g. the marshes = of > the Musquodoboit valley or riparian marshes of SW Nova that support the > native subspecies *americanus. * > > The native subspecies is more delicate, the culms are thinner-- usually > reddish (vs. green-yellow)--and in my experience, they are most common on > wind-exposed, lakeshore fens. While ssp americanus has a S4 ranking, I > would say it was rare. > Nick > > > On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 12:13 PM Frederick W. Schueler <bckcdb@istar.ca> > wrote: > >> Maritimers, >> >> Listening to the discussion of the Tantramar marshes on the Sunday >> Edition yesterday, and not hearing any discussion of invasive European >> Phragmites there, I'm forwarding this warning from 2004, and from 2010 - >> >> https://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/2010/10/view-from-beausejour.= html >> - in the hopes that there's some possibility of action. >> >> from the 2010 report: "This is the one place in the Maritimes where the >> invasive European Phragmites australis subspecies australis has been >> reported, so we are interested in seeing how conditions here compare to >> what we'd observed elsewhere in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia... we >> drove the busy road across the marshes both ways, waypointing stands and >> taking representative specimens... >> >> "The first thing we noticed was that the stands were very distinctly >> divided into native-like and invasive-like kinds: we counted 11 alien >> and 7 native stands, and only 1 that we called ambiguous, though the >> natives graded out into little whisps, and we doubtless missed some of >> these which an observer on foot could have waypointed. The most striking >> feature of this difference was the persistent green foliage of the >> aliens, in contrast to the shriveled get-ready-for-winter brown of the >> natives (one often sees that alien plants from NW Europe retain green >> leaves far longer than native plants do). >> >> "Those on NatureNS will remember that throughout Nova Scotia we were >> perplexed by the intermediacy and confusing morphology of the majority >> of the Phragmites stands we sampled there: at Tantramar there was no >> ambiguity, and the natives didn't look much different from the ones we >> see in Ontario". >> >> Those of us in Ontario have seen how completely the invasive Phragmites >> can take over wide areas, and really wish action could be taken in the >> Maritimes before the task becomes impossible. >> >> fred. >> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D >> >> -------- Forwarded Message -------- >> Subject: Catling & company on invasive Phragmites in the Maritimes (& >> Nfld) >> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 10:39:08 -0500 >> From: Frederick W. Schueler <bckcdb@istar.ca> >> Organization: Bishops Mills Natural History Centre >> To: NATURENB@LISTSERV.UNB.CA <NATURENB@LISTSERV.UNB.CA> >> >> New Brunswickers, >> >> I urge you to read the appended article (which has just come out in >> BEN), very carefully, and to take action to suppress stands of the alien >> race. All you need to do is to drive along the eastern shore of NB, and >> then drive along the shore roads of New Jersey (solid alien Phragmites >> as far as the eye can see), to envisage just what you don't want your >> province to become. The Fundy shore is more different from New Jersey, >> so the geomorphic comparison isn't so close, but solid stands of >> Phragmites would be equally undesireable there. >> >> fred. >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> BOTANICAL ELECTRONIC NEWS No. 324, March 16, 2004 >> <aceska@victoria.tc.ca> Victoria, B.C. >> ----------------------------------------------------------- >> Dr. A. Ceska, P.O.Box 8546, Victoria, B.C. Canada V8W 3S2 >> ----------------------------------------------------------- >> >> STATUS OF THE ALIEN RACE OF COMMON REED (_PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS_) >> IN THE CANADIAN MARITIME PROVINCES >> From: Paul M. Catling*, Gisele Mitrow*, Lynn Black*, Susan >> Carbyn** >> * Agriculture and AgriFood Canada, >> Environmental Health, Biodiversity, >> Saunders Bldg., C.E.F., Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0C6 >> catlingp@agr.gc.ca >> **Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada >> Environmental Health, Biodiversity >> 32 Main Street, Kentville, Nova Scotia B4N 1J5 >> >> An alien race of Common Reed (presumably the European _Phrag- >> mites australis_ (Cav.) Trin. ssp. _australis_) has been rapidly >> spreading along roadsides and invading and dominating wetlands >> in parts of southern Ontario and Quebec since the early 1990s >> (Schueler 2000a, b, Robichaud & Catling 2003, Catling et al. >> 2003). The invasion and domination of native plant communities >> led to a substantial reduction in native biodiversity (e.g. >> Catling et al. 2003, Lavoie et al. 2003). Very recently the >> status of the alien race has been clarified in other parts of >> Canada (e.g. M