Sentences with phrase «invasive water hyacinth»

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And even if you couldconvince people to eat nutria — the South American swamp rat introduced in the 1960s to clear Louisiana's Mississippi Delta waterways of another invasive species, water hyacinth — there's no way they'd be able to catch up with the population, which has already wiped out whole swaths of native greenery.

The water hyacinth is an invasive, freshwater plant that is toxic to your dog if he ingests it.

The American landscape is a catalogue of noxious weeds and invasive pests that have disrupted native ecosystems: Japanese kudzu in the South, African tamarisk in the Southwest, Amazonian water hyacinth and Burmese pythons spreading through the Everglades, Russian zebra mussels choking the Great Lakes, Asian carp invading the Mississippi River system, and European brown rats everywhere.