NRCS Invasive Species Policy
Invasive Species Executive Order 13112
Kentucky State-listed Noxious Weeds
9 records returned
Click on an accepted name below to view its PLANTS Profile with more information, and
web links if available. Noxious weeds that are synonyms are indented beneath the current
PLANTS accepted name.
Kentucky Revised Statutes. 1990.
Department to eradicate noxious weeds on right-of-ways -- advertisement of program
(1 May 2006).
State of Kentucky.
Symbol |
Scientific Name |
Noxious Common Name |
State Weed Status† |
Native Status* |
CANU4 |
Carduus nutans L. |
musk thistle |
NW |
L48 (I), CAN (I) |
CIAR4 |
Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop. |
Canada thistle |
NW |
L48 (I), AK (I), CAN (I), GL (I), SPM (I) |
PUMOL |
Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr. var. lobata (Willd.) Maesen & S. Almeida |
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L48 (I), HI (I) |
PULO |
Pueraria lobata (Willd.) Ohwi |
kudzu |
NW |
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ROMU |
Rosa multiflora Thunb. |
multiflora rose |
NW |
L48 (I), CAN (I) |
SEFA |
Setaria faberi Herrm. |
giant foxtail |
NW |
L48 (I), CAN (I) |
SIAN |
Sicyos angulatus L. |
wild cucumber |
NW |
L48 (N), CAN (N) |
SOPT7 |
Solanum ptycanthum Dunal |
black nightshade |
NW |
L48 (N), AK (I), HI (I), VI (I), CAN (N) |
SOHA |
Sorghum halepense (L.) Pers. |
johnsongrass |
NW |
L48 (I), HI (I), PR (I), CAN (I) |
†Code | Weed Status |
NW |
Noxious weed |
*Code | Native Status |
I |
Introduced |
N |
Native |
*Code | Native Location |
L48 |
Lower 48 States |
US02 |
Alaska |
US15 |
Hawaii |
US72 |
Puerto Rico |
US78 |
Virgin Islands |
CA |
Canada |
GL |
Greenland |
SB |
St. Pierre and Miquelon |
Additional information about noxious plants in this state can be found at:
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