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Invasive Callery Pear


Callery Pear: Cut Them Down - Dyck Arboretum

We planted them for their explosion of spring blooms and nice fall color, but this ornamental tree has become highly invasive. It threatens ...

Callery Pear - Virginia Invasive Species

Virginia Invasive Species ... What's the harm? A medium-sized tree, Callery pear (Pyrus calleryana) spreads rapidly in fields, roadsides, and open canopy forests.

Callery Pear | Ohio Department of Natural Resources

The Callery pear is an ornamental pear tree native to Asia which has become an invasive plant. It was introduced to North America in the early 1900s for ...

Callery Pear (Pyrus calleryana) - Invasive.Org

Callery pear occurs throughout the eastern US from New Jersey to Illinois and south to Texas. It grows best in full sun but will tolerate some shading and ...

The Invasive Callery Pear - Oklahoma State University Extension

Callery pear is an excellent roosting tree for gregarious blackbirds, grackles and starlings, which are problematic in urban areas due to defecation on cars ...

Invasive Callery Pear - Illinois Extension

The Callery pear tree (Pyrus calleryana) covers the Illinois landscape in white blooms for a few weeks in April. This tree was widely planted in the 1950s ...

Callery Pear - Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

Once established, Callery pear trees form dense thickets that push out native plants which are unable to tolerate shade or compete for water, soil, and space. A ...

Callery pear (Not recommended) | The Morton Arboretum

Callery pear has invasive traits that enable it to spread aggressively. This tree is under observation and may be listed on official invasive species lists.

Callery/Bradford Pear | Purdue University Report Invasive Species

Callery pear may look pretty, but it's crowding out Indiana native trees! It's the first tree with white flowers in the spring and dark crimson leaves late into ...

Callery Pear - Penn State Extension

Callery pear (Pyrus calleryana) is an invasive landscape tree. This article displays images to assist with identification and provides recommendations for ...

Beware the Callery Pear! - Piedmont Master Gardeners

The Bradford Pear is a widely planted cultivar of Pyrus calleryana, or Callery Pear, a highly invasive species that takes hold in vacant lots, abandoned ...

Callery pear trees are blooming again, and that's bad news

That is because the Callery pear is an invasive species — one of the worst in the Southeast — and it's rapidly spreading from Virginia's ...

Callery Pear Control | Missouri Department of Conservation

A single wild tree can spread quickly by seed and vegetative means, often forming dense thickets within several years and outcompeting native plants. In ...

Callery Pear - Kansas Forest Service

While callery pear continues to be a reliable and aesthetic performer in the landscape, the threat of invasiveness likely outweighs the benefits ...

Callery Pear: Accurate Identification - Penn State Extension

Callery or Bradford pear (Pyrus calleryana) is a widely planted invasive street and ornamental tree often found growing along roadsides, in old fields and ...

Early Detection: Invasive Pear Trees - Vermont Invasives

Callery pear is moderately sized (~40') deciduous tree, with alternately arranged, oval, dark green leaves, that are finely toothed.

Callery pears: An invader 'worse than murder hornets!' - AP News

Now, their invasive descendants have been reported in more than 30 states. “Worse than murder hornets!” was the tongue-in-cheek title of a U.S. ...

Invasives in Your Woodland: Callery Pear

Drive along many of Maryland's major roads in the spring, and you will see what seems like a wall of white, as the Callery pear (and its ...

Callery Pear: the Jekyll and Hyde Tree - BYGL (osu.edu)

Callery pears are native to Asia. The species is named for a French missionary, Joseph Callery, who first collected the tree in 1858.

The Rise and Fall of the Ornamental Callery Pear Tree

Today this tree is considered invasive in many states, in stark contrast to how it grows in its native range in Asia. How did this tree become ...