An essential component of protecting Florida's unique biodiversity is bringing under control the invasive non-native plants that displace native plants and animals, change the structure of natural communities, or affect adversely the ecological functions of our ecosystems. FNAI is contributing to the control effort with establishment of methodology for an ongoing statewide mapping of these invaders.

The overall scope of the multi-year project is to provide a geo-referenced inventory and tracking tool for occurrences of invasive exotic plants on Florida's public conservation lands. Tasks include development of a statewide easy-to-apply system, data collection to populate the system, analysis of results as the system builds, and collaboration with natural resource managers statewide in adding and updating data. In addition, the project team may focus as requested on special management issues such as the spread of the highly invasive exotic climbing ferns. The project is funded by the Bureau of Invasive Plant Management, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, and co-sponsored by the Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council.

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Marion County Invasives Pilot Project
A new interactive map for viewing and submitting invasive species information.

GIS Data

Florida Invasive Plants GeoDatabase
An essential component of protecting Florida's unique biodiversity is bringing under control the invasive non-native plants that displace native plants and animals, change the structure of natural communities, or affect adversely the ecological functions of our ecosystems. FNAI is contributing to the control effort with the establishment of the Florida Invasive Plants GeoDatabase. The following data files are available for download. For more information, please contact FNAI.

shapefile (with metadata): FLInv_20080331.zip (1984 KB)
view metadata (154 KB)
tabular data (MS Excel): FLInvtbl_200803.xls (13 MB)

How you can help

Share your data on invasive exotic plant occurrences in public conservation lands. To learn more details about the types of data needed and data formats please download our FLINV_Data_Documents (1 MB). This zip file contains data standards, data collection guidelines, field survey protocols, a field survey form, a data dictionary for GPS dataloggers, newly developed ArcPad forms, templates for processing your data, and a guide for what data to send. An included “Read Me” text file describes the various documents contained in the download.

All data submitted to FNAI should be accompanied by the FLINV Invasive Species Data Submission Form: FLINV Invasive Species Data Submission Form (26 KB)

Please mail completed (hardcopy) field survey forms to:
Florida Natural Areas Inventory
attn: Invasives Data Coordinator
1018 Thomasville Road, Suite 200-C
Tallahassee, Florida 32303

Or email electronic version or field survey form to Invasives Data Coordinator.

For more information:
If you would like to know more about details of the process, or are interested in scheduling some FNAI invasives surveying on public conservation lands, please call FNAI at 850-224-8207.