Be sure to check the seeds included in a commercial wildflower mix
before you plant it. Some contain noxious weeds! Plants like Baby's
Breath (Gypsophila paniculata) and White Campion (Silene latifolia) are
listed as noxious weeds in Flathead County, and Common Yarrow and
Creeping Bellflower (Campanula rapunculoides) are undesirables.
Noxious weeds include: Spotted Knapweed, Diffuse Knapweed, Russian
Knapweed, Canada Thistle, Field Bindweed, Whitetop, Leafy Spurge, Dalmatian Toadflax, Yellow Or Common Toadflax, St. Johnswort, Sulfur Cinquefoil, Common Tansy, Ox-Eye Daisy, Houndstongue, Dyers Woad, Purple Loosestrife,
Tansy Ragwort, Meadow Hawkweed Complex, Orange Hawkweed, Tall
Buttercup, Tamarisk (Salt Cedar), Perennial Pepperweed, Yellow
Starthistle, Rush Skeletonweed, Eurasian Watermilfoil, Yellow Flag Iris.
Flathead
County has additional noxious weeds that include: Baby’s Breath,
Flowering Rush, Tumble (Jim Hill) Mustard, Russian Thistle and White
Campion. Undesirables are Creeping Bellflower, Common Yarrow, Absinth
Wormwood and Scentless Chamomile. Please contact the Flathead County Weed Department for more information. |
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