Illinois
Department of Natural ResourcesEXOTIC PLANT SPECIES THAT SHOULD BE LISTED IN SECTION 15
| Norway maple | Acer platanoides |
| swingle tree of heaven | Ailanthus altissima |
| mimosa | Albizia julibrissin |
| garlic mustard | Alliaria petiolata |
| round-leaved bittersweet | Celastrus orbiculatus |
| crown vetch | Coronilla varia |
| air-potato | Dioscorea oppositifolia |
| common teasel | Dipsacus fullonum |
| cut-leaved teasel | Dipsacus laciniatus |
| Russian olive | Elaeagnus angustifolia |
| thorny olive | Elaeagnus pungens |
| autumn olive | Elaeagnus umbellata |
| winged wahoo or burning bush | Euonymus alatus |
| wintercreeper | Euonymus fortunei |
| tall fescue | Festuca elatior |
| English ivy | Hedera helix |
| dame's rocket | Hesperis matronalis |
| Japanese hops | Humulus japonicus |
| bicolor lespedeza or shrubby bushclover | Lespedeza bicolor |
| sericea lespedeza | Lespedeza cuneata |
| Chinese privet | Ligustrum sinense |
| common privet | Ligustrum vulgare |
| January jasmine | Lonicera fragrantissima |
| Japanese honeysuckle | Lonicera japonica |
| Amur honeysuckle | Lonicera maackii |
| Morrow’s bush honeysuckle | Lonicera morrowii |
| Tatarian honeysuckle | Lonicera tatarica |
| bush honeysuckle | Lonicera x bella |
| purple loosestrife | Lythrum salicaria |
| sweet clover | Melilotus alba or M. officinalis |
| zebra grass, Chinese silver grass | Miscanthus sinensis |
| camus nepalgrass, Japanese grass | Microstegium vimineum |
| Eurasian water milfoil | Myriophyllum specatum |
| princess tree | Paulownia tomentosa |
| reed canary grass | Phalaris arundinacea |
| canary grass | Phalaris canariensis |
| Japanese knotweed, Japanese bamboo | Polygonum cuspidatum |
| mile-a-minute weed | Polygonum perfoliatum |
| curlyleaf pondweed | Potamogeton crispus |
| kudzu | Pueraria lobata |
| sawtooth oak | Quercus acutissima |
| common buckthorn | Rhamnus cathartica |
| glossy buckthorn | Rhamnus frangula |
| smooth buckthorn/tall hedge | Rhamnus frangula |
| saw-toothed buckthorn | Rhamnus arguta |
| dahurian buckthorn | Rhamnus davurica |
| Japanese buckthorn | Rhamnus japonica |
| Chinese buckthorn | Rhamnus utilis |
| black locust | Robinia pseudoacacia |
| multiflora rose | Rosa multiflora |
| tropical soda apple | Solanum viarum |
| johnson grass | Sorghum halepense |
| Japanese spiraea | Spiraea japonica |
