Code of Maine Rules
01 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, CONSERVATION AND FORESTRY
001 - AGRICULTURE - GENERAL
Chapter 273 - CRITERIA FOR LISTING INVASIVE TERRESTRIAL PLANTS
Section 001-273-VII - Species Watch List

Current through 2024-38, September 18, 2024

Evaluated plant species that do not currently meet all the criteria contained in section II but may meet those criteria within the next five years. These species are not subject to the prohibitions in Section III.

Scientific Name

Common Name

Actinidia arguta

Hardy kiwi

Akebia quinata

Chocolate vine; five-leaf akebia

Arum italicum

Italian arum

Broussonetia papyrifera

Paper mulberry

Buddleja davidii

Butterfly bush

Clematis terniflora

Yam-leaved virgin's bower, sweet autumn

Dioscorea oppositifolia

Indian yam

Dioscorea polystachya

Chinese yam

Eragrostis curvula

Weeping lovegrass

Filipendula ulmaria

Queen of the meadow

Lespedeza bicolor

Bicolor lespedeza, two-colored bush-clover

Ligustrum ovalifolium

California privet

Lonicera caerulea

Honeyberry, haskap

Lychnis flos-cuculi or Silene flos-cuculi

Ragged robin

Morus alba

White mulberry

Quercus acutissima

Sawtooth oak

Rosa rugosa

Rugosa rose, beach rose

Saccharum ravennae or Tripidium ravennae

Ravenna grass, hardy pampas grass

Salvia glutinosa

Sticky sage

Silybum marianum

Milk thistle

Spiraea japonica

Japanese spiraea

Symplocos paniculata

Sapphire-berry

Syringa reticulata

Japanese tree lilac

Toona sinensis

Chinese cedar

Ulmus pumila

Siberian elm

Viburnum dilatatum

Linden arrowwood

Viburnum sieboldii

Siebold viburnum

Wisteria floribunda

Japanese wisteria

Wisteria sinensis

Chinese wisteria

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