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New Jersey Nursery & Landscape Association
The initial list of regulated invasive plant species shall include:
- Norway maple (Acer platanoides)
- tree of heaven (Ailanthus altissima)
- mimosa or silk tree (Albizia julibrissin)
- porcelain berry (Ampelopsis glandulosa var. brevipedunculata)
- Japanese angelica tree (Aralia elata)
- Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii)
- Japanese clematis (Clematis terniflora)
- autumn olive (Elaeagnus umbellata)
- weeping lovegrass (Eragrostis curvula)
- winged burning bush (Euonymus alatus)
- English ivy (Hedera helix)
- Japanese hop (Humulus japonicas)
- sericea lespedeza (Lespedeza cuneata)
- European privet (Ligustrum vulgare)
- Amur honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii)
- Morrow’s honeysuckle (Lonicera morrowii)
- purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria)
- Japanese crabapple (Malus toringo)
- Chinese silvergrass (Miscanthus sinensis)
- Eurasian water-milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum)
- Oriental photinia (Photinia villosa)
- running bamboo species within the genus Phyllostachys
- Callery or Bradford pear (Pyrus calleryana)
- common buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica)
- jetbead (Rhodotypos scandens)
- multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora)
- European water chestnut (Trapa natans)
- Siebold’s arrowwood (Viburnum sieboldi)
- Japanese wisteria (Wisteria floribunda)
- Chinese wisteria (Wisteria sinensis).
In addition to future exemptions pursuant to section 3b of this Act, the following list of cultivars and varieties of the above regulated species shall be exempted from regulation but shall require accompanying plant labelling and explanatory materials approved by NJDA:
For more information, please contact the New Jersey Nursery & Landscape Association at
njnla.director@gmail.com or 609-291-7070