Prohibited Plants

  • a patch of Dog-strangling vine in flower in the foreground, adjacent to a sidewalk and with the street and a grass boulevard in the background

    Dog-strangling Vine

    Dog-strangling Vine is one of Kingston's more-than-human neighbours. They're on Kingston's Prohibited Plants list because their dense stands displace Milkweed, reduce insect habitat, and rapidly expand into disturbed areas. Horticulturalists...
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  • a photo with several yellow flowering umbels of wild parsnip in the foreground, with railway bridge over a creek in the background

    Wild Parsnip

    Wild Parsnip is one of Kingston's more-than-human neighbours. They've lived here for more than 400 years, brought over by European settlers as a food crop. They're the wild relative of...
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  • Patch of Ragweed growing in a gap in the concrete by a lightpole on the side of street - by andrew_qiu on iNaturalist.jpeg

    Ragweed

    Ragweed is one of Kingston's more-than-human neighbours. They've lived here for more than 60,000 years. A gap-filler, a soil-holder, a winter larder for birds. For most of that time, their...
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  • closeup of buckthorn leaves with a bunch of glossy black berries

    Buckthorn

    Common Buckthorn is one of Kingston's more-than-human neighbours. They were brought here in the 1880s as windbreaks and hedgerows, put to work, then forgotten. Now they're one of Kingston's Prohibited...
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