Pennsylvania Regulations for Controlled Plants and Noxious Weeds

Common Name	Scientific Name
kudzu	Pueraria montana var. lobata (Willd.) Maesen & S. Almeida
Canada thistle	Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop.
musk thistle, nodding thistle	Carduus nutans L.
hydrilla	Hydrilla verticillata (L. f.) Royle
purple loosestrife	Lythrum salicaria L.
mile-a-minute vine, Asiatic tearthumb	Persicaria perfoliata (L.) H. Gross
multiflora rose	Rosa multiflora Thunb.
johnsongrass	Sorghum halepense (L.) Pers.
bull thistle	Cirsium vulgare (Savi) Ten.
poison hemlock	Conium maculatum L.
goatsrue	Galega officinalis L.
giant hogweed	Heracleum mantegazzianum Sommier & Levier
sterile oat	Avena sterilis Linnaeus
Palmer amaranth	Amaranthus palmeri S. Wats.
common waterhemp	Amaranthus rudis Sauer
waterhemp	Amaranthus tuberculatus (Moq.) Sauer
European wand loosestrife	Lythrum virgatum L.
sorghum (type unspecified)	Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench
wavyleaf basketgrass	Oplismenus undulatifolius (Ard.) Roem. & Schult.
dodder (nonnative)	Cuscuta (non-native) L.
broomrape (nonnative)	Orobanche (non-native) L.

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