Invasive Plant Information for Vermont: Vermont Plant Quarantine Rule: Class A and B species |
In April 2002, the Vermont Department of Agriculture, Food & Markets adopted a plant quarantine rule in order to regulate the importation, movement, sale, possession, cultivation, and/or distribution of certain invasive plants. The rule creates two quarantine categories.
Class A and B species listed under Vermont's Quarantine Rule:
Species name | Common Name | Status |
Cabomba caroliniana | fanwort | Class A |
Egeria densa | Brazilian Elodea | Class A |
Hydrilla verticillata | hydrilla | Class A |
Hygrophila polysperma | East Indian hygrophila | Class A |
Myriophyllum aquaticum | parrot feather | Class A |
Myriophyllum heterophyllum | variable-leaved milfoil | Class A |
Salvinia sp. (four species) | giant salvinia | Class A |
Vincetoxicum hirundinaria | pale swallow-wort | Class A |
Aegopodium podagraria | goutweed | Class B |
Ailanthus altissima | tree-of-heaven | Class B |
Alliaria petiolata | garlic mustard | Class B |
Butomus umbellatus | flowering rush | Class B |
Celastrus orbiculatus | Oriental bittersweet | Class B |
Fallopia japonica | Japanese knotweed | Class B |
Hydrocharis morsus-ranae | frogbit | Class B |
Lonicera sp. (four species) | honeysuckle | Class B |
Lonicera japonica | Japanese honeysuckle | Class B |
Lythrum salicaria | purple loostrife | Class B |
Myriophyllum spicatum | Eurasian watermilfoil | Class B |
Nymphoides peltata | yellow floating heart | Class B |
Phragmites australis | common reed | Class B |
Potamogeton crispus | curly leaf pondweed | Class B |
Rhamnus sp. (two species) | buckthorn | Class B |
Trapa natans | water chestnut | Class B |
Vincetoxicum nigrum | black swallow-wort | Class B |
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