Florida Administrative Code › 5 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND CONSUMER SERVICES › 5B - Division of Plant Industry › Chapter 5B-64 - AQUATIC PLANT IMPORTATION, TRANSPORTATION, NON-NURSERY CULTIVATION, POSSESSION AND COLLECTION › Section 5B-64.011 - Prohibited Aquatic Plants

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) Class I
				Prohibited Aquatic Plants - Under no circumstances will these species be
				permitted for possession, collection, transportation, cultivation, and
				importation except as provided in Rule
				5B-64.004, F.A.C.:
SCIENTIFIC NAMES
COMMON NAMES
Alternanthera philoxeroides
Alligatorweed, green lead plant
Casuarina spp.
Australian Pine
Crassula helmsii
Swamp stone crop
Eichhornia spp.
Waterhyacinth
Hydrilla verticillata
Hydrilla, Florida elodea, stargrass, oxygen
							 grass
Ipomoea aquatica
Water spinach
Ipomoea fistulosa
Lagarosiphon spp.
African elodea
Limnocharis flava
Sawah flowing rush
Lythrum salicaria
Purple loosestrife
Melaleuca quinquenervia
Melaleuca
Mimosa pigra
Giant sensitive plant, cat's claw
Monochoria hastata
Monochoria vaginalis
Myriophyllum spicatum
Eurasian watermilfoil
Nechamandra alternifolia
Oryza rufipogon
Wild Red rice
Pontederia rotundifolia
Tropical pickerelweed
Salvinia spp., (excluding S. minima)
Schinus terebinthifolius
Brazilian-pepper
Sparganium erectum
Exotic bur-reed
Stratiotes aloides
Water-aloe, soldier plant
Trapa spp.
Water chestnut
Vossia cuspidata
Hippo grass
(2)
				Class II Prohibited Aquatic Plants - These species are considered to be highly
				invasive and noxious in localized areas of the State of Florida. These plants
				may be cultured in a nursery regulated by the Department of Agriculture and
				Consumer Services pursuant to sections
				581.031,
				581.131 and
				581.145, F.S., and shall only be
				sold out of state upon approval by the department. These species shall not be
				imported or collected from the wild. They must be contained in such a manner so
				as to prevent the dissemination from the nursery premises.
SCIENTIFIC NAMES
COMMON NAME
Hygrophila polysperma
Hygro
Limnophila sessiliflora
Ambulia
Pistia stratiotes
Waterlettuce
(3)
				The department is authorized to designate additional plants to be prohibited by
				emergency order as provided in Rule 5B-64.012, F.A.C.
(4) The prohibited aquatic plant list
				comprises the most recent and accepted scientific and common names of the
				prohibited aquatic plant species. However, the prohibited status also applies
				to any synonyms.
(5) The department
				is authorized to consider a plant for inclusion on the prohibited plant list
				when it displays, or when there is scientific evidence to believe it could
				display in the Florida environment, one or more of the following
				characteristics:
(a) The tendency to spread or
				become invasive in an ecosystem, sometimes in a rapid manner, so as to impair
				the ecosystem's ability to function by altering its productivity,
				decomposition, water fluxes, nutrient cycling and loss, soil fertility,
				erosion, dissolved oxygen concentrations, or its ability to maintain its
				existing species diversity.
(b) The
				propensity to invade and disrupt aquatic and wetland ecosystems in other areas
				or in other countries with climates similar to that of Florida.
(c) The ability to create dense, monospecific
				stands or monotypic stands which displace or destroy native plant habitat,
				destroy fish and wildlife habitats, inhibit water circulation, hinder
				navigation and irrigation, or severely restrict the recreational use of
				waterways.
(d) The ability to
				resist effective management by present technology or available management
				agents so that only extraordinary efforts, such as repeated chemical treatments
				at high dosage rates, can bring about effective
				management.