# Invasives in Southern Forests

> Reference

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id495852751](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id495852751)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id495852751`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Charles T. Bargeron
- **Category:** Reference
- **Rating:** 4.10 / 5 (19 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.0.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-12-07
- **First published:** 2012-01-25
- **Size:** 300 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-05
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/invasives-in-southern-forests/id495852751)
- **Website:** [http://www.invasive.org/](http://www.invasive.org/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.eddmaps.org/about/PrivacyPolicy.cfm](https://www.eddmaps.org/about/PrivacyPolicy.cfm)

## Description

This app is based on the U.S. Forest Service publication: A Field Guide for the Identification of Invasive Plants in Southern Forests. Invasions of nonnative plants into forests of the Southern United States continue to go unchecked and only partially unmonitored. These infestations increasingly erode forest productivity, hindering forest use and management activities, and degrading diversity and wildlife habitat. Often called nonnative, exotic, nonindigenous, alien, or noxious weeds, they occur as trees, shrubs, vines, grasses, ferns, and forbs. This app provides information on accurate identification of the 56 nonnative plants and groups that are currently invading the forests of the 13 Southern States. Recommendations for prevention and control of these species is provided from the booklet, “A Management Guide for Invasive Plants of Southern Forests,” published by the Southern Research Station as a General Technical Report. Basic strategies for managing invasions on a specific site include maintaining forest vigor with minimal disturbance, constant surveillance and treatment of new unwanted arrivals, and finally, rehabilitation following eradication.

## Rankings

- #265,761 — Overall

## Review summary

Users praise the app for its high-quality photos, detailed descriptions, and broad, field-ready coverage that helps identify many invasive plants. However, recurring issues with crashes and slow startup, regional navigation problems, and content gaps/accuracy concerns frequently hinder usability.

### Pros

- High-quality, detailed photos that greatly aid field identification
- In-depth, well-written plant descriptions with key characteristics and distribution info (plus glossary and sketches)
- Comprehensive, field-ready coverage of invasive species with ongoing updates
- Real-world usefulness: helps identify dozens of invasive plants in various settings

### Cons

- Stability/startup issues: crashes on launch and long or stalled initial database build
- Regional navigation/coverage problems: difficulty changing regions and region-specific listing mismatches
- Content gaps and accuracy concerns: cut-off info, missing some noxious species, and questionable inclusions

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