The Tennessee Exotic Pest Plant Council lists it as an invasive species.
Foxes arrived, as did muskrats, which in Europe count as an invasive species.
But jatropha has been recently banned by two Australian states as an invasive species.
The red-eared slider turtle is banned in the European Union and South Africa as an invasive species.
You may not think of your cat as an invasive species.
It is classified as an invasive species elsewhere around the world.
Japanese knotweed Originally introduced as an ornamental, Japanese knotweed is now classed as an invasive plant - it has escaped into the countryside and is causing havoc.
"There will always be people in the United States who view the U.N. as an invasive force that weakens our sovereignty," he said.
"This is the first documented evidence of a grey squirrel population retracting, without any human intervention, subsequent to having established itself as an invasive species".
Even the lowly garlic mustard, now outlawed in Connecticut, where I live, as an invasive pest, gets a turn at my table.
The Swedish environment ministry on Friday asked the EU to list the Maine lobster as an invasive species and ban the import of the live creatures.
