Nuisance Plants
Several Category I invasive species of plants are recognized by the City of Parkland as nuisance plants. View the Nuisance Plant List for more information on each species that may be growing on your property.

Category I and II Invasives:
Invasive exotics, as determined by the Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council, that are altering native plant communities by displacing native species, changing community structures or ecological functions, or hybridizing with natives.   This definition does not rely on the economic severity or geographic range of the problem, but on the documented ecological damage caused.    
Definitions:

• Invasive exotic—an exotic that not only has naturalized but is expanding on its own in Florida plant communities and causing deleterious effects to native habitat.
• Exotic— a species introduced to Florida, purposefully or accidentally, from a natural range outside of Florida.
• Naturalized exotic—an exotic that sustains itself outside cultivation (it is still exotic; it has not "become" native)
• Native—a species whose natural range included Florida at the time of European contact (1500 A.D.).

Nusiance Species List:

• Shinus terebinthifolius (Brazilian Pepper).
• Metopium toxiferum (Poisonwood). 
• Melaleuca quinquenervia (Punk Tree, Cajeput or Pepper Bark).
• Casuarina Species (Australian Pine).
• Bishofia javanica (Bischofia, Bishopwood).
• Acacia auriculaeformis (Earleaf Acacia).   
• Aravacaria excelsia (Norfolk Island Pine). 
• Brassia actinophylla (Shefflera). 
• Leucaena leucocephala (Lead Tree). 
• Cupaniopsis anacardiopsis (Carrotwood). 
• Syzygium cumini (Jambolan Plum, Java Plum). 
• Albizia julibrissin (Silk Tree). 
• Dalbergia sissoo (Rosewood Tree).