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)
Polygonum perfoliatum (Mile-a-Minute)
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)
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)
Rorippa sylvestris (L.) Bess. (Yellow Fieldcress)
Stachys floridana Shuttlew. (Florida Betony)
Tribulus terrestris L. (Puncturevine)

Class C Noxious Weeds 

Celastrus orbiculatus Thunb. - (Bittersweet, Oriental)