Practical information to identify and manage non-native, invasive plants
The Quiet Invasion:A Guide to Invasive Plants of the Galveston Bay Area
A number of other internet resources are available with information on invasive species.
Regional
Galveston Bay Invasive Species Risk AssessmentThe Galveston Bay Invasive Species Risk Assessment accumulated and assessed existing information describing the identity, characteristics, and impacts of exotic species invading natural ecosystems in the Lower Galveston Bay Watershed. A risk assessment was conducted to identify current and potential invasive species posing the greatest risk to the ecology and human uses of the Lower Galveston Bay Watershed.
Texasinvasives.org
TexasInvasives.org is the website of the Texas Pulling Together Initiative. The website includes a database of Texas invasive plants along with information on AlterNative Species, the Texas Invasive Plant Conference, citizen science monitoring initiatives, and a Texas Forest Threats mapping application.
USGS NBII CSWGCIN
The Central Southwest Gulf Coast Information Node (CSWGCIN) is the gateway to biological information for Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, and Gulf of Mexico. The website contains an invasive species webpage with invasives news headlines, invasive species alerts, mapping applications, and a regional invasive species database.
National
Invasive.orgInvasive.org is the best web collection of high quality photos of US invasive species.
USGS NAS
The USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species (NAS) information system provides a searchable database, alert system and collection of distribution maps for aquatic invasive species in the US.
USDA Plants Database
USDA Plants is an extensive database of information describing the descriptions and distributions of native and nonnative vascular plant species in the US.
USDA ITIS Database
The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) is a definitive source of US and global taxonomic information for species of plants, animals, fungi, and microbes.