Garlic Mustard is an invasive plant that steals food, water, and space from other plants. The native home to Garlic Mustard is Europe. The date of introduction is 1868 in the U.S.A. This plant was put here on purpose to create food and medication, but now it is basically a weed but in mass production. This plant is still being grown, but is failing, and is taking over the plant system and upsetting the balance in this deciduous forest. It is hurting instead of helping as they thought it would.It is also taking up so much space that even I believe they will eventually take over the deciduous forest in North America. In Europe insects have adapted to eating roots of these plants. In North America they cannot do that.
Plants typically found in a deciduous forest include american beech, carpet moss, common lime, guelder rose, lady fern, northern arrowwood, pecan, shaggy shagbark hickory, tawny milk sap mushroom, white birch and white oak. Many of these plants are helpful to the environment, you, and other animals. They help us make pecan ice cream too. Yummy.