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Designated Noxious Weeds

Class A Noxious Weeds

  • Cabomba caroliniana (fanwort)
  • Egeria densa (Brazalian elodea)
  • Hydrilla verticillata (hydrilla)
  • Hygrophila polysperma (east Indian hygrophila)
  • Myriophyllum aquaticum (parrot feather)
  • Myriophyllum heterophyllum (variable-leaved milfoil)
  • Salvinia auriculata (giant salvinia)
  • Salvinia biloba (giant salvinia)
  • Salvinia herzogii (giant salvinia)
  • Salvinia molesta (giant salvinia)
  • Vincetoxicum hirundinaria (syn: Cynanchum rossicum) (pale swallow-wort)

Class B Noxious Weeds

  • Aegopodium podagraria (goutweed/bishopsweed/snow-on-the-mountain)
  • Ailanthus altissima (tree-of-heaven)
  • Alliaria petiolata (A. officinalis) (garlic mustard)
  • Butomus umbellatus (flowering rush)
  • Celastrus orbiculatus (oriental bittersweet)
  • Fallopia japonica (syn: Polygonum cuspidatum) (Japanese knotweed)
  • Hydrocharis morsus-ranae (frogbit)
  • Lonicera x bella (bell honeysuckle)
  • Lonicera japonica (Japanese honeysuckle)
  • Lonicera maackii (amur honeysuckle)
  • Lonicera morrowii (Morrow honeysuckle)
  • Lonicera tatarica (Tatarian honeysuckle)
  • Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife)
  • Myriophyllum spicatum (Eurasian watermilfoil)
  • Nymphoides peltata (yellow floating heart)
  • Phragmites australis ssp. australis (common reed)
  • Potamogeton crispus (curly leaf pondweed)
  • Rhamnus cathartica (common buckthorn)
  • Rhamnus frangula (syn: Frangula alnus) (glossy buckthorn)
  • Trapa natans (water chestnut)
  • Vincetoxicum nigrum (syn: Cynanchum louiseae) (black swallow-wort)
  • Acer platanoides (Norway maple)*
  • Berberis vulgaris (common barberry)*
  • Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry)*
  • Euonymous alatus (burningbush)*
  • Iris pseudacorus (yellow flag iris)*
  • Acer ginnala (Amur maple)*
  • Najas minor (European naiad)*

 All weeds listed in 7 C.F.R. 360.200 as amended, which is hereby incorporated by reference including subsequent amendments and editions.

*Specimens of these species acquired prior to the final filing of this rule may be sold or offered for sale until July 1, 2013.