Short communication, Note
Querries in Smerovišće (Zagreb County, Croatia) - where Buddleja davidii Franch. went wild
Igor Boršić
orcid.org/0000-0002-7275-4851
; Croatian Agency for the Environment and Nature, Radnička cesta 80/7, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The Asian species Buddleja davidii Franch. (Buddlejaceae) is a common ornamental plant which escaped from cultivation and is now considered invasive in many European countries. In Croatia it is also grown as ornamental but until now there has been little evidence of its naturalization, although it was marked as naturalized in the Flora Croatica Database. In this article first detailed data on its local naturalization in Croatia are presented: it was discovered in quarries in Smerovišće forming quite big naturalized population, where it presumably originated from planted individual(s). In the future special attention should be paid to this species, and if necessary eradication or containment actions should be promptly carried out.
Keywords
alien species; Buddleja davidii; Buddlejaceae; naturalization; ornamental plant
Hrčak ID:
196414
URI
Publication date:
26.3.2018.
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