Common Invasive Plants | Callery Pear
Callery Pear
Pyrus calleryana
Callery Pear is an ornamental deciduous tree that can grow up to 40 feet in height. It tolerates a wide range of soil conditions. Callery, also known as Bradford pear, escapes from landscape plantings and populates areas along roads, rights-of-way and old fields where it competes with native early successional trees. Callery Pear is banned in CT effective October 2027.
How to Control
Seedlings and shallow-rooted trees can be pulled when soil is moist. Small trees will need to be dug up or pulled out with a Weed Wrench tool to ensure removal of all roots. If cutting down the tree is not possible, it can be girdled during the spring or summer by cutting through the bark all around the trunk about six inches above the ground.
Callery Pear is an ornamental deciduous tree that can grow up to 40 feet in height. It tolerates a wide range of soil conditions. Callery, also known as Bradford pear, escapes from landscape plantings and populates areas along roads, rights-of-way and old fields where it competes with native early successional trees. Callery Pear is banned in CT effective October 2027.
How to Control
Seedlings and shallow-rooted trees can be pulled when soil is moist. Small trees will need to be dug up or pulled out with a Weed Wrench tool to ensure removal of all roots. If cutting down the tree is not possible, it can be girdled during the spring or summer by cutting through the bark all around the trunk about six inches above the ground.
