I don't want to see anyone get in trouble.
I found about 1 1/2 years ago when I was going to trade water Hyacinth.
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppq/weeds/nwposter.pdf
Blessings,
Sandy ^8^
Water hyacinth is on federal outlawed list. Not just States.
OoOops!
Strange since it dies very quickly in zone 4, as soon as the first cold arrives (not even frost!) it's deader than a houseplant in a blizzard.... DOA with no chance of resurrection... it's a very frail plant in cold zones and I bought some for my barrel 2 years ago from Walmart.
well wall mart has done a lot of things wrong lately...LOL
ely
I only found the website. If anyone looks under the states it is outlawed
Texas has $1,000 fine per plant. We got ours out of a waterway. When I found it all out I couldn't see what it hurt. Who would see it in my yard in barrels? But then I decided it wasn't worth it. I threw it in my compost pile.
I am just letting everyone know then it is up to them what they do.
Blessings,
Sandy ^8^
Ely,
Coke.........you owe me a coke.
Sandy ^8^
WOW! I've seen atleast three of those plants for sale at Petsmart with in the last 2-3 years for aquarium use. My fish ate that stuff up inna hurry, I guess out native fish don't prey on it. I sure would like to know what the exact reasoning is behind out lawing it. It must be clogging irragation lines, that makes the most sense to me. Thanks for the link, interesting read.
JD
That stuff clogs entire waterways. It kills engines on boats and ships. Ask any fisherman who's ever been stuck in it, but be ready for some colorful language. ;)
It can completely cover the surface of a body of water, smothering and depriving of sunlight everything underneath - devastating ecosystems. It's bad stuff.
Beautiful, but deadly. It's got to go.
Cheri'
Alot of them cover the surace so think it says with no light and oxygen every fish and other plants die.
There is alot of good info on that web site and the individual State sites. Here are a few sites I acme across. I know it doesn't cover the surface of all the problems.
http://www.iisgcp.org/EXOTICSP/water_hyacinth.htm
http://plants.usda.gov/cgi_bin/topics.cgi?earl=noxious.cgi
http://ficmnew.fws.gov/page3.html
http://ficmnew.fws.gov/
http://www.ncsu.edu/news/press_releases/03_07/196.pdf
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppq/weeds/7USC7781-S144.pdf
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/lpa/issues/issues.html
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppq/weeds/
http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov:591/1WF/whitefly_catalog.htm
Interesting thought. I wonder if it would be a good green fertilizer, like seaweed is.
My goldfish don't eat it. Of course they are probably too full of goldfish pellets
when it gets going in my pond I feed it to my chickens......
but it dies real quick here in fall