ALL FIVE BOROUGHS OF NEW YORK CITY · BUILT AT QUEENS COLLEGE

There are more invasive species in NYC than you think.

Plants and animals on New York's official invasive species list have been spotted across all five boroughs. See where, learn to tell them apart, and report what you find.

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Photo: Common reed (Phragmites australis), (c) Steven Bodzin, some rights reserved (CC BY), on iNaturalist

Find invasive species near you.

Every point is a real sighting of a species on New York's official invasive list. Tap one to see what it is, how risky it is, and what to do about it.

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