Plant Industry - Plant Protection Section

NC Noxious Weed List

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Class A Noxious Weeds (Federally-listed species)

Other Class A Noxious Weeds

Crassula helmsii (Swamp Stonecrop)
Lagarosiphon spp. (African Elodea)
Nymphoides cristata (Floating Heart, Crested)
Nymphoides indica (Water snowflake)
Nymphoides peltata (Floating Heart, Yellow)
Salvinia spp. (all except S. minima) (Water Fern)
Trapa spp. (Water-Chestnut)

Class B Noxious Weeds

Carduus acanthoides L. (Plumeless Thistle)
Carduus nutans L. (Musk Thistle)
Cayratia japonica (Thunb.) Gagnep. (Bushkiller)
Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop. (Canada Thistle)
Ludwigia hexapetala (Hook & Arn.) Zardini, Gu & Raven (Uruguay Waterprimrose)
Lythrum spp.(Any Lythrum spp. not native to North Carolina)
Myriophyllum spicatum L. (Eurasian Watermilfoil)
Persicaria perfoliata (Mile-a-Minute Weed)
Rorippa sylvestris (L.) Bess. (Yellow Fieldcress)
Tribulus terrestris L. (Puncturevine)
Vitex rotundifolia L.f. (Beach Vitex)

Class C Noxious Weeds 

Celastrus orbiculatus Thunb. - (Bittersweet, Oriental)