More educational efforts could be aimed at consumers so they can make wise planting decisions. Urban sites are especially vulnerable to invasions. Most planting environments in cities are disturbed. Soil compaction as well as poor composition, construction damage, heat island effects, and poor management practices give hardy introduced plants the advantage. Litigation may be inevitable in the future of this issue, although it seems unlikely that this will yield more desirable results.
Current legislation is limited.
Noxious weed laws exist, but relatively few plants are included. A problem arises in evaluating criteria for inclusion in such lists. A plant may be dangerously aggressive in one region and Faris 3 harmless in another. In addition, federal and state laws differ. This legislation is currently difficult to enforce and there is much room for challenges to the laws.