The following are considered prohibited noxious weeds for the purpose of seed certification.
ENGLISH OR COMMON NAME | BOTANICAL OR SCIENTIFIC NAME |
Austrian fieldcress | Rorippa austriaca |
Field bindweed | Convolvulus arvensis |
Hedge bindweed | Calystegia spp. |
Camelthorn | Alhagi maurorum |
Canada thistle | Cirsium arvense |
Dodder | Cuscuta spp. |
Hairy whitetop | Lepidium appelianum |
Hoary cress | Lepidium draba |
Jointed goatgrass and jointed goatgrass hybrids | Aegilops cylindrica |
Leafy spurge | Euphorbia esula |
Palmers amaranth | Amaranthus palmeri |
Perennial pepperweed | Lepidium latifolium |
Perennial sowthistle | Sonchus arvensis |
Quackgrass | Elymus repens |
Knapweed complex | |
Bighead | Centaurea macrocephala |
Vochin | Centaurea nigrescens |
Black | Centaurea nigra |
Brown | Centaurea jacea |
Diffuse | Centaurea diffusa |
Meadow | Centaurea x moncktonii |
Russian | Rhaponticum repens |
Spotted | Centaurea stoebe subsp. australis |
Purple starthistle | Centaurea calcitrapa |
Yellow starthistle | Centaurea solstitialis |
Serrated tussock | Nassella trichotoma |
Silverleaf nightshade | Solanum elaeagnifolium Cav. |
Sorghum perennial such as, but not limited to, johnson-grass, sorghum almum, and perennial sweet sudangrass | Sorghum spp. |
Tansy ragwort | Jacobaea vulgaris |
Yellow-flowering skeleton weed | Chondrilla juncea |
White cockle | Silene latifolia (only in timothy) |
Bladder campion | Silene vulgaris (only in timothy) |
Lepyrodiclis | Lepyrodicilis holsteoides |
Velvetleaf | Abutilon theophrasti |
Wash. Admin. Code § 16-302-100
Statutory Authority: Chapter 15.49 RCW. 09-16-006, § 16-302-100, filed 7/22/09, effective 8/22/09. Statutory Authority: RCW 15.49.005, 15.49.081, 15.49.310, 15.49.370(3) and chapter 17.24 RCW. 00-24-077, § 16-302-100, filed 12/4/00, effective 1/4/01.