FLEPPC List Definitions: The 2019 list was prepared by Florida Exotic Pest Plant the FLEPPC Plant List Committee Exotic—a species introduced to Florida, purpose- Council’s 2019 List of fully or accidentally, from a natural range outside Tony Pernas, Co-Chair, 2017-2019, National Park Service, of Florida. Native—a species whose natural range Big Cypress National Preserve,
[email protected] Invasive Plant Species includes Florida. Naturalized exotic—an exotic Dennis Giardina, Co-Chair, 2017-2019, Florida Fish and Wild- life Conservation Commission,
[email protected] The mission of the Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council is to that sustains itself outside cultivation (it is still reduce the impacts of invasive plants in Florida through exotic; it has not “become” native). Janice Duquesnel, Florida Park Service, Florida Department of Environmental Protection,
[email protected] the exchange of scientific, educational, and technical Invasive exotic— an exotic that has not only information. naturalized, but is expanding on its own in Florida Alan Franck, Florida International University, Department of Biological Sciences,
[email protected] Note: The FLEPPC List of Invasive Plant Species is not a native plant communities. regulatory list. Only those plants listed as Federal Noxious Roger L. Hammer, Retired Naturalist and Author, Zone: N = north, C = central, S = south,
[email protected] Weeds, Florida Noxious Weeds, Florida Prohibited Aquatic Plants, or in local ordinances are regulated by law. Referring to each species’ general distribution in John Kunzer, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation regions of Florida (not its potential range in the Commission,
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