Invasive plants of the botanical garden of Vyatka State University

The key strategy for controlling the alien component in natural and natural-anthropogenic communities is an inventory of species, including those in the territories of botanical gardens as sources of invasive plants. A total of 56 invasive species from 34 families of flowering plants was identified in the botanical garden of Vyatka State University. These are mainly perennial herbs. Species of the 1^st (35.7 %), 2^nd (28.6 %) and 3^rd (28.6 %) invasive statuses predominate among them. Potentially invasive species (the 4^th status) account for only 7.1 % of the species. Plants from Europe and Asia (39.3 %), Asia (25.0 %) and North America (21.4 %) dominate the invasive component.