If you’re a gardener or a conservationist, you know this plant. It leaps into any space it can find and chokes out anything (like native grasses, trillium, other beautiful flowers,) and even after it’s pulled out leaves a chemical in the soil so that nothing can take its place unless carefully planted there, thus leaving that space for it to invade again. This is why we have the "garlic mustard army," which pulls this noxious invader every spring in Asylum Preserve before it sprouts seeds and gets even worse. When possible, WMU includes garlic mustard pulls in its public outreach events to help control what has become one of the preserve's most persistent invasive plants. A garlic mustard decomposition area is dug at the preserve each year so the collected plants can be buried on site as a more environmentally friendly alternative to sending the weeds to a landfill.
Garlic Mustard has got to go