EPPO Global Database

EPPO Reporting Service no. 01 - 2023 Num. article: 2023/029

Catalogue of alien plants of the Czech Republic (3rd edition)


The 3rd edition of the Catalogue of alien plants of the Czech Republic has been published. It lists 1576 taxa alien to the country, with information on their taxonomic position, life form, geographic origin, residence time category (archaeophyte or neophyte), invasion status (casual, naturalized or invasive), date of the first and last field record, grid-cell occupancy, pathway of introduction into the country, habitat affiliation and impact assessment. This edition includes 122 additional taxa compared to the 2nd edition (2012); 157 taxa were added and 35 were removed. Of the removed taxa, 17 were reclassified as native, 8 were removed due to lack of evidence of their occurrence in the wild, records of 6 taxa were assessed as doubtful, and 4 were not taxonomically justified.



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Pyšek P, Sádlo J, Chrtek Jr J, Chytrý M, Kaplan Z, Pergl J, Pokorná A, Axmanová I, Čuda J, Doležal J, Dřevojan P, Hejda M, Kočár P, Kortz A, Lososová Z, Lustyk P, Skálová H, Štajerová K, Večeřa M, Vítková M, Wild J, Danihelka J (2022) Catalogue of alien plants of the Czech Republic (3rd edition): species richness, status, distributions, habitats, regional invasion levels, introduction pathways and impacts. Preslia 94, 447-577.