R68-8-2. Noxious Weed Seeds and Weed Seed Restrictions

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to sell, offer, or expose for sale or distribute in the State of Utah any agricultural, vegetable, flower, tree and shrub seeds, or seeds for sprouting for seeding purposes which:

A. Contain, either in part or in whole, any prohibited noxious weed seeds.

1. "Prohibited" noxious weed seeds are the seeds of any plant determined by Utah Commissioner of Agriculture and Food to be injurious to public health, crops, livestock, land, or other property and which is especially troublesome and difficult to control.

2. Utah prohibited noxious weed seeds are as follows:

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     Bermudagrass (Except in Cynodon dactylon (L.)

       Washington County) Pers.

     Bindweed (Wild Morning-glory) Convolvulus spp.

     Black henbane Hyoscyamus niger (L.)

     Broad-leaved Peppergrass (Tall Lepidium latifolium L.

       Whitetop)

     Canada Thistle Cirsium arvense (L.)

                                          Scop.

     Dalmation Toadflax Linaria dalmatica (L.)

                                         Miller

     Diffuse Knapweed Centaurea diffusa (Lam.)

     Hoary cress Cardadia spp.

     Houndstongue Cynoglossum

                                         officinale (L.)

     Dyers Woad Isatis Tinctoria L.

     Oxeye daisy Chrysanthemum

                                         leucanthemum (L.)

     Perennial Sorghum spp. including but not

                                           limited to Johnson

                                           Grass (Sorghum

                                           halepense (L.)

                                           Pers.) and Sorghum

                                           Almum (Sorghum

                                           almum, Parodi).

     Poison Hemlock Conium maculatum (L.)

     Leafy Spurge Euphorbia esula L.

     Medusahead Taeniatherum

                                          caput-medusae (L.)

                                          Nevski)

     Musk Thistle Carduus nutans L.

     Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria L.

     Quackgrass Agropyron repens (L.)

                                          Beauv.

     Russian Knapweed Centaurea repens L.

     SaltCedar (Tamarix) Tamarix ramosissima

                                         Ledeb.

     Scotch Thistle (Cotton Thistle) Onopordum acanthium L.

     Spotted Knapweed Centaurea maculosa

                                          Lam.

     Squarrose Knapweed Centaurea virgata Lam. Ssp

                                          squarrosa Gugle.

     St. Johnswort, common Hypericum

                                         perforatum (L.)

     Sulfur cinquefoil potentilla recta L.

     Yellow Starthistle Centaurea

                                          solstitialis L.

     Yellow toadflax Linaria vulgaris (Mill.)

B. Contain any restricted weed seeds in excess of allowable amounts:

1. The following weed seeds shall be allowed in all crop seed, but shall be restricted not to exceed a maximum of 27 such seeds per pound, either as a single species or in combination:

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     Dodder Cuscuta app.

     Halogeton Halogeton glomeratus (M. Bieb.)

     Jointed goatgrass Aegilops cylindrica (Host.)

     Poverty Weed Iva axillaris Pursh.

     Wild Oats Avena fatua L.

2. The following maximum percentage of weed seeds by weight shall be allowed:

a. Two percent (2.0%) of Cheat (Bromus secalinus), Chess (Bromus brizaformis), (B. commutatus), (B. mollis), Japanese Brome (Bromus japonicus) and Downy Brome (Bromus tectorum) either as a single species or in combination in grass seeds.

b. One percent (1.0%) of any weed seeds not listed in 2.a. above in grass, flower, tree and shrub seeds.

c. One half of one percent (0.50%) in all other kinds or types of seeds.