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ProblemSolver Plants: Plants for Erosion Control

The following plants are suggestions for growing in areas where preventing soil erosion is necessary. Many plants that have been used for erosion control in past decades are not recognized as being exotic, introduced species that are invasive and damaging to natural areas. They do a good job at holding soil but can cause other problems and therefore many recommend that they not be planted and existing plantings be removed. Removing these plants, however, can also be problematic as erosion problems can quickly return. Cutting back invasive species but not removing the roots and maintaining them as short plants until more desirable species can be planted and allowed to grow may be necessary. Once the new, desirable plants are of sufficient size the invasive plants can be killed.

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