# The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Keeping and Release and Notification Requirements) (Scotland) Order 2012, Part 2A: Types of invasive plants specified for the purposes of section 14ZC(1)(b) of the 1981 Act (types of plant which it is an offence for a person to keep, have in their possession or have under their control)


Common name
Scientific name
Column (1)
Column (2)
American skunk-cabbage
Lysichiton americanus
Curly waterweed
Lagarosiphon major
Floating pennywort
Hydrocotyle ranunculoides
Floating primrose-willow
Ludwigia peploides
Giant hogweed
Heracleum mantegazzianum
Giant-rhubarb
Gunnera tinctoria
Indian balsam
Impatiens glandulifera
Japanese stiltgrass
Microstegium vimineum
Nuttall’s waterweed
Elodea nuttallii
Parrot’s feather
Myriophyllum aquaticum
Persian hogweed
Heracleum persicum
Sosnowsky’s hogweed
Heracleum sosnowskyi
Various-leaved water-milfoil
Myriophyllum heterophyllum
Water primrose
Ludwigia grandiflora

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/174/schedule/1/part/2A (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981-keeping-and-release-and-notification-requirements-scotland-order-2012/schedule-1/part-2A
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