Home Depot is selling officially listed invasive plants.
We’re asking them to STOP.
Invasive plants threaten climate resilience and cost the U.S. economy over $100 billion every year. You can help.
Learn how the invasive plants sold by Home Depot are reducing tree canopy, destroying coastal wetlands, exacerbating western wildfires, and increasing herbicide use.
81,265 signatures and counting
•
Add Yours Now
•
81,265 signatures and counting • Add Yours Now •
Home Depot stopped selling invasive plants in California in 2015. But they’re still selling them in every other state.
Home Depot’s corporate website boasts about their commitment to environmental stewardship. So why are they still selling at least 34 invasive plant species?
Invasive plants now cover 1.4 million acres of our national park lands and waters.
“Invasive species have contributed to the decline of 42% of U.S. endangered and threatened species.”
Home Depot’s 2022 Responsibility Report claims they sell “environmentally beneficial plants”…
…but Home Depot hides behind the legal distinction between “noxious weeds” and “invasive plants.” Noxious weeds are illegal to transport, grow, or sell. But in most U.S. states, the “invasive plant species” lists do not have legal authority — even though Executive Order 13112 defines invasive plants as “an alien species whose introduction does or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health.” Home Depot needs to stop selling officially listed invasive plants as well as noxious weeds.
Home Depot sells several hundred varieties of plants. Only a small number of them are invasive.
We are only asking Home Depot to STOP selling the 34 species of plants they carry that are officially listed as invasive.
“Customers often don't know about invasive species, and rely on stores or nurseries to sell plants that don't harm the environment. As a Weed Warrior, I spend many hours trying to remove Japanese barberry and other invasive species that have escaped cultivation. These plants should NEVER be sold at a store or garden center.”
— Barbara Shaw
Liz Jones
“I trusted places like HD to sell me unharmful plants. Now I'm ripping them all out because they don't support our native environment and destroy it instead with inappropriate plants. Do better!”
Veronica Martin
“Most home gardeners aren’t ecologists and shouldn’t have to be — make it easier to avoid buying harmful plants, please.”
Sign the petition!
“We better fix this.”
— Douglas Tallamy
What People Are Saying
“The climate impact of continuing to sell invasive vines that infest our forests and kill our native trees is almost incalculable. In our Takoma Park community we identified over 5,000 trees at risk of dying in the next five years. Yet Home Depot and other garden centers continue selling English ivy, even when it's officially listed as invasive in 16 states. It's completely unethical — retailers can and should do something about this.”
— Jesse Buff
Chesapeake Climate Action Network
“Landowners are frustrated. Farmers are frustrated. Volunteers are frustrated. There isn’t enough time, money and energy to eradicate all of these invasive plants that have escaped people’s gardens and are hurting our farms, our national parks and our economy. To walk into a Home Depot nursery and see these invasive plants still being sold today is just adding insult to injury.”
— Elizabeth Mizell
Blue Ridge PRISM
“[We support] this important petition regarding the sale of invasive landscape plants. While the board debated singling out a single retailer, we acknowledge that this retailer is the industry leader. The Home Depot is one of only 30 companies that are part of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and its stores are present in all 50 states. If we can persuade Home Depot to make changes, other landscape retailers will follow.”
— Nancy Vehrs
Virginia Native Plant Society
Endorsed by
