Is it illegal to plant or sell it in my state?

Plain answers for common invasive landscape plants, state by state, from official lists. Checked 2026-10-14. Not legal advice.

• Bradford (Callery) pear — 15 states
• Burning bush — 14 states
• Japanese barberry — 16 states
• Japanese knotweed — 26 states
• English ivy — 6 states
• Border privet — 9 states
• Chinese privet — 4 states
• Golden bamboo — 5 states
• Yellow groove bamboo — 5 states
• Purple loosestrife — 40 states
• Norway maple — 11 states
• Japanese honeysuckle — 15 states
• Nandina (heavenly bamboo) — 2 states
• Autumn olive — 18 states
• Tree of heaven — 21 states
• Oriental bittersweet — 16 states
• Amur honeysuckle — 18 states
• Multiflora rose — 19 states
• Kudzu — 19 states
• Miscanthus (maiden grass) — 7 states
• Common buckthorn — 15 states
• Glossy buckthorn — 13 states
• Chinese wisteria — 6 states
• Japanese wisteria — 5 states
• Mimosa tree — 3 states
• Running bamboo in Virginia — local ordinances, fines, who pays