Significant knowledge gaps of invasive species in the Americas exist (Pysek et al., 2008). While countries such as the USA and Canada have been leaders in recording and studying invasive species, most countries in the Americas have only recently directed efforts to record invasive alien species and their impacts (Pysek et al., 2008; Pauchard et al., 2010). Auspiciously, national inventories of invasive species and research on invasive species and their impacts is now being promoted across the Americas to reduce this knowledge gap (e.g. Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Argentina; Zenni et al., 2017).