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EarthX Website: https://earthxmedia.com/   Invasive plants, such as Japanese barberry, are taking over forests and destroying ecosystems thanks to human intervention.   About Kill Your Lawn:  Best friends Joey and Al set out across America to accomplish their mission: carry out a turficidal killing spree and leave a trail of pollinator-friendly, native plant gardens in their wake. It’s time to laugh our way to a lawn-less future!    This clip comes from Season 2, Episode 4: "After Lawn Special"    EarthX  Love Our Planet.  The Official Network of Earth Day.    About Us:  At EarthX, we believe our planet is a pretty special place. The people, landscapes, and critters are likely unique to the entire universe, so we consider ourselves lucky to be here. We are committed to protecting the environment by inspiring conservation and sustainability, and our programming along with our range of expert hosts support this mission. We’re glad you’re with us.     EarthX is a media company dedicated to inspiring people to care about the planet. We take an omni channel approach to reach audiences of every age through its robust 24/7 linear channel distributed across cable and FAST outlets, along with dynamic, solution oriented short form content on social and digital platforms. EarthX is home to original series, documentaries and snackable content that offer sustainable solutions to environmental challenges. EarthX is the only network that delivers entertaining and inspiring topics that impact and inspire our lives on climate and sustainability.       EarthX Website: https://earthxmedia.com/    Follow Us:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/earthxtv/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/earthxtv  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/earthxtv      How to watch:   United States:   - Spectrum  - AT&T U-verse (1267)  - DIRECTV (267)  - Philo  - FuboTV  - Plex  - Fire TV    #EarthDay #Environment #Sustainability #Eco-friendly #Conservation #EarthxTV #EarthX

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00:00We're in Somerset, Maryland, learning about the plan for replacing Builder's special turf

00:06grass and invasive species with something much better.

00:10Let's take a minute and look at this landscape because it really does induce nausea.

00:13Yeah.

00:14I mean, it could be in front of a bank.

00:15It could be in front of a government building, a drugstore, strip mall parking lot.

00:20I mean, we've got our Berber Stenbergia, our Japanese Barbary.

00:23Boring, uninteresting, and invasive, so it kind of hit all three out of the park.

00:28This is an invasive species.

00:30Yeah.

00:31The birds eat it and then s*** it out and you get it popping up in the forest.

00:34Yeah, and our forests are loaded with it.

00:37At nearby Rock Creek Park, it doesn't take long to see how the invasive Japanese Barbary,

00:42Berberus Stenbergii, has begun to invade the understory of the native hardwood forest.

00:48We're in the understory of a forest that's dominated primarily by tulip trees, which

00:52are a native tree, Liridendron tulipfera, a member of the magnolia family, and the American

00:57beech, which is related to oaks.

00:59But within this wonderful native forest, we have quite a few invasives that are competing

01:05with the natives and hopefully will not overtake them.

01:08Yeah, here's that Berberus Stenbergia, Japanese Barbary.

01:12See that?

01:13You know why they plant it is because there's those cultivars that have the purple leaves.

01:18It causes interest.

01:20Very unique leaf color.

01:22Very attractive.

01:23Why isn't this one purple?

01:25Because it's growing in the understory and it's not, again, this is the cultivar versus

01:28wild species.

01:29So when those berries got pulled off by a bird, because birds are what disperse these,

01:35the seeds that sprout are not always true to form because you get phenotypic variations.

01:39Genetic variation, generation to generation.

01:41So that one that's sold as a cultivar, it's intentionally bred by people and selected

01:46for and probably cloned, but it produces fertile fruit.

01:49So that fertile fruit produces these plants that don't have that purple leaves.

01:53Now you've just got this ugly, spiny plant that spreads like wildfire throughout the

01:58forest and the entire eastern seaboard.

02:00It's really pretty unfortunate.

02:01Highly invasive.

02:02It's listed as a noxious plant.

02:04I'm surprised they're still able to sell it legally.

02:07And now that I'm looking, now that you're showing me it, I see it everywhere.

02:10It's everywhere.

02:12But there's English Ivy as well, which is another bad invasive.

02:15This one right here.

02:16And again, it's planted just whimsically because it's attractive.

02:20It makes you think of like a little quaint cottage.

02:22Makes me want to puke.

02:23And it's a really bad invasive.

02:25Really hard to get rid of.

02:26It's in the Aurelia family, Aureliaceae.

02:28Heterohelix, it's called.

02:30You're saying that this is, again, this is something that's planted in a landscape, planted

02:33horticulturally, then it escapes its captivity and gets out into...

02:37Right.

02:38And why was it planted?

02:39Because some jackass with no context for ecology thought it was attractive.

02:42I mean, it shouldn't even be being sold.

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