Illegal Aquatic Plants in Alabama

Alabama Regulation 220-2-.124: Alabama Nonindigenous Aquatic Plant Control Act
For  the purposes of enforcement of Sections 9-20-1 through 9-20-7, Code of Alabama 1975, enacted by Act No. 95-767, as the "Alabama Nonindigenous Aquatic Plant Control Act," the following list of all nonindigenous aquatic plants which are prohibited by Section 9-20-3 from being introduced or placed or caused to be introduced or placed into public waters of the state is established:

African elodea, alligatorweed, Brazilian elodea, curlyleaf pondweed, Eurasian watermilfoil, floating waterhyacinth, giant salvinia, hydrilla, hygrophila, limnophila, parrot-feather, purple loosestrife, rooted waterhyacinth, spinyleaf naiad, water-aloe, water lettuce, water chestnut, and water spinach

Aquatic plants that are illegal under federal law as of January 31, 2003, include: mosquito fern (water velvet), Mediterranean clone of caulerpa, anchored waterhyacinth, hydrilla, Miramar weed, Chinese waterspinach, oxygen weed, ambulia, melaleuca, monochoria, pickerel weed, duck-lettuce, arrowhead, giant Salvina (Salvinia auriculata, S. biloba, S. herzogii, and S. molesta), wetland nightshade, exotic bur-reed, purple loosestrife, alligatorweed, Brazilian elodea, curlyleaf pondweed, water hyacinth, parrotfeather, watermilfoil (Myriophyllum aquaticum), Eurasian watermilfoil (M. spicatum), phragmites (common reed), spinyleaf naiad, water-aloe, water lettuce, and water chestnut.