Invasive Plants
For the current list of invasive plants, see OAC 901:5-30-01. A five-person invasive plant advisory committee will review potential future additions to the invasive plant list. The following plants are designated as invasive in Ohio:
- Amur honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii)
- Autumn olive (Elaeagnus umbellate)
- Black dog-strangling vine, black swallowwort (Vincetoxicum nigrum)
- Callery pear (Pyrus calleryana) (effective on January 2023)
- Spotted knapweed (Centaurea stoebe ssp. Micranthos)
- Common barberry (Berberis vulgaris)
- Common reed (Phragmites australis)
- Common teasel (Dipsacus fullonum)
- Curly-leaved pondweed (Potamogeton crispus)
- Cutleaf teasel (Dipsacus laciniatus)
- Dame's rocket (Hesperis matronlis)
- Brazilian Elodea (Egeria densa)
- Eurasian water-milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum)
- European buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica)
- European frog-bit (Hydrocharis morsus-ranae)
- European wand loosestrife (Lythrum virgatum)
- Fig buttercup/lesser celandine (Ficaria verna (synonym Ranunculus ficaria))
- Flowering rush (Butomus umbellatus)
- Garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolate)
- Giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum)
- Glossy buckthorn (Frangula alnus)
- Hairy willow herb (Epilobium hirsutum)
- Hybrid cattail (Typha x glauca)
- Hydrilla (Hydrilla verticillate)
- Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica)
- Japanese stiltgrass (Microstegium vimineum)
- Kudzu (Pueraria montana var. lobate)
- Morrow's honeysuckle (Lonicera morrowii)
- Multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora)
- Narrow-leaved cattail (Typha angustifolia)
- Oriental bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus)
- Parrotfeather (Myriophyllum aquaticum)
- Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria)
- Russian olive (Elaeagnus angustifolia)
- Tatarian honeysuckle (Lonicera tatarica)
- Tree-of-heaven (Ailanthus altissima)
- Water chestnut (Trapa natans)
- Yellow floating heart (Nymphoides peltate)