3 CCR § 4500 Cal. Admin. Code tit. 3, § 4500

BARCLAYS OFFICIAL CALIFORNIA CODE OF REGULATIONS TITLE 3. FOOD AND AGRICULTURE DIVISION 4. INDUSTRY CHAPTER 6. WEED FREE AREAS AND WEED ERADICATION AREAS SUBCHAPTER 6. NOXIOUS WEED This database is current through 8/7/09, Register 2009, No. 32

§ 4500. Noxious Weed Species.

It has been determined that the following species of are noxious weeds within the meaning of Section 5004 of the Food and Agricultural Code:

Acacia paradoxa (Kangaroo thorn) Acaena anserinifolia (biddy biddy) Acaena novae-zelandiae (biddy biddy) Acaena pallida (biddy biddy) Achnatherum brachychaetum (punagrass) Acroptilon repens (Russian knapweed) Aegilops cylindrica (jointed goatgrass) Aegilops ovata (ovate goatgrass) Aegilops triuncialis (barb goatgrass) Aeschynomene rudis (rough jointvetch) Alhagi maurorum (camelthorn) Ailanthus altissima (tree of heaven) Allium paniculatum (panicled onion) Allium vineale (wild garlic) Alternanthera philoxeroides (alligatorweed) Ambrosia trifida (giant ragweed) Araujia sericofera (bladderflower) Arctotheca calendula (capeweed, as seed or fertile plants) Arundo donax (giant reed) Cardaras chalepensis (lens-podded hoary cress) Cardaria draba (heart-podded hoary cress) Cardaria pubescens (globe-podded hoary cress) Carduus acanthoides (plumeless thistle) Carduus nutans (musk thistle) Carduus pycnocephalus (Italian thistle) Carduus tenuiflorus (Italian thistle) Carthamus baeticus (smooth distaff thistle) Carthamus lanatus (woolly distaff thistle) Carthamus leucocaulos (whitestem distaff thistle) Cenchrus echinatus (southern sandbur) Cenchrus incertus (coast sandbur) Cenchrus longispinus (mat sandbur) Centaurea calcitrapa (purple starthistle) Centaurea diffusa (diffuse knapweed) Centaurea iberica (Iberian starthistle) Centaurea maculosa (spotted knapweed) Centaurea melitensis (tocalote) Centaurea solstitialis (yellow starthistle) Centaurea squarrosa (squarrose knapweed) Centaurea sulphurea (Sicilian thistle) Chondrilla juncea (skeletonweed) Chorispora tenella (purple mustard) Cirsium arvense (Canada thistle) Cirsium ochrocentrum (yellowspine thistle) Cirsium undulatum (wavyleaf thistle) Cirsium vulgare (bull thistle) Convolvulus arvensis (field bindweed) Coronopus squamatus (swinecress) Cortaderia jubata (jubata grass) Crupina vulgaris (bearded creeper) Cucumis melovar. dudaim (dudaim melon) Cucumis myriocarpus (paddy melon) Cuscuta spp. (dodder) Cynara cardunculus (artichoke thistle) Cyperus esculentus (yellow nutsedge) Cyperus rotundus (purple nutsedge) Cytisus scoparius (Scotch broom) Elytrigia repens (quackgrass) Euphorbia esula (leafy spurge) Euphorbia oblongata (oblong spurge) Euphorbia serrata (serrate spurge) Gaura drummondii (scented gaura) Gaura sinuata (wavyleaf gaura) Genista monspessulana (French broom) Halimodendron halodendron (Russian salt tree) Halogeton glomeratus (halogeton) Helianthus ciliaris (blueweed) Heteropogon contortus (tanglehead) Hydrilla verticillata (hydrilla) Hyoscyamus niger (black henbane) Hypericum perforatum (Klamath weed) Isatis tinctoria (dyer's woad) Lepidium latifolium (perennial peppercress) Linaria genistifoliassp. dalmatica (Dalmatian toadflax) Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife) Muhlenbergia schreberi (nimblewill) Nothoscordum inodorum (false garlic) Nymphaea mexicana (banana waterlily) Onopordum (spp. onopordum thistles) Orobanche ramosa (branched broomrape) Oryza rufipogon (red rice) Panicum antidotale (blue panicgrass) Peganum harmala (harmel) Pennisetum clandestinum (Kikuyugrass) Physalis virginianavar. sonorae (smooth groundcherry) Physalis viscosa (grape groundcherry) Polygonum cuspidatum (Japanese knotweed) Polygonum polystachyum (Himalayan knotweed) Polygonum sachalinense (giant knotweed) Prosopis strombulifera (creeping mesquite) Rorippa austriaca (Austrian fieldcress) Salsola australis (common Russianthistle) Salsola paulsenii (barbwire Russianthistle) Salsola vermiculata (wormleaf salsola) Salvia aethiopis (Mediterranean sage) Salvia virgata (meadow sage) Scolymus hispanicus (golden thistle) Senecio jacobaea (tansy ragwort) Senecio mikanioides (Delairea odorata) (Cape ivy) Senecio squalidus (Oxford ragwort) Setaria faberi (giant foxtail) cardiophyllum (heartleaf nightshade) Solanum carolinense (Carolina horsenettle) Solanum dimidiatum (Torrey's nightshade) Solanum elaeagnifolium (white horsenettle) Solanum lanceolatum (lanceleaf nightshade) Solanum marginatum (white-margined nightshade) Sonchus arvensis (perennial sowthistle) Sorghum halepense (Johnsongrass and other perennial Sorghum spp. including but not limited to sorghum almumand perennial sweet sudangrass) Spartium junceum (Spanish broom) Sphaerophysa salsula (Austrian peaweed) Striga lutea (witchweed) Symphytum asperum (rough comfrey) Taeniatherum caput-medusae (medusahead) Tagetes minuta (wild marigold) Tamarix chinensis (salt cedar) Tamarix gallica (salt cedar) Tamarix parviflora (salt cedar) Tamarix ramosissima (salt cedar) Tribulus terrestris (puncture vine) Ulex europaeus (gorse) Viscum album (European mistletoe) Zygophyllum fabago (Syrian beancaper)

This regulation shall in no way restrict the designation of a weed pest to those species listed herein.

Note: Authority cited: Sections 407 and 5004, Food and Agricultural Code. Reference: Section

5004, Food and Agricultural Code.

HISTORY

1. Amendment filed 12-21-77 as an emergency; designated effective 1-1-78 (Register 77, No. 52). For prior history, see Register 77, No. 31.

2. Certificate of Compliance filed 1-6-78 (Register 78, No. 1).

3. Amendment of NOTE filed 3-9-83; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 83, No. 11).

4. Amendment filed 5-7-97; operative 6-6-97 (Register 97, No. 19).

5. Amendment filed 8-12-2003; operative 9-11-2003 (Register 2003, No. 33).

6. Amendment filed 1-28-2008; operative 2-27-2008 (Register 2008, No. 5).

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