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Most Widespread Invasive Plants in the Florida*

1. cogongrass - Imperata cylindrica

2. torpedograss - Panicum repens

3. lantana - Lantana camara

4. Japanese climbing fern - Lygodium japonicum

5. coco yam, wild taro - Colocasia esculenta

6. chinaberry - Melia azedarach

7. alligatorweed - Alternanthera philoxeroides

8. tropical soda apple - Solanum viarum

9. air potato - Dioscorea bulbifera

10. waterhyacinth - Eichhornia crassipes

* Plants with most county records