How Does Garlic Mustard Affect The Environment

Garlic mustard is not a positive thing for our environment. Garlic mustard is a plant, more easily classified as a weed, that has an extremely negative impact on our environment. The garlic mustard is an aggressive woodland invader in most of the eastern U.S. Actually, it is much worse than the zebra mussels. Zebra mussels are small freshwater mollusks. Garlic mustard has a negative impact on the environment because of many things. For starters, it is easily spread. Not only is it spread easily, but it is incredibly hard to get rid of. Garlic mustard spreads without difficulty and it is already hard to get rid of, so it is just overall a terrible thing for the environment. It is worse for the environment than zebra mussel because zebra mussels help fishermen by fattening up the salmon. Zebra mussels also make the lake clearer. All in all, the affect of garlic mustard is much worse on the environment than zebra mussels. …show more content…
It is an invasive non-native biennial herb that spreads by seed. Zebra mussels are not plants so they cannot be spread easily. The seeds of a garlic mustard are very small. They are easy to spread because they get on animals, people, vehicles, also by water, and even birds. Deer tracks and trails through forests are usually lined with garlic mustard. These plants can produce more than 62,000 seeds per square meter, they out compete the other plants because of this. Every plant usually produces one stem, but if the plant gets cut or it is stepped on, many stems will form. This makes garlic mustard worse for the environment because zebra mussels do not necessarily harm Indiana, just some bodies of water. Garlic mustard affects Indiana in a large way because it is an easily spread