GENERAL NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
STATE LAWS REQUIRE YOU TO DESTROY NOXIOUS WEED ON YOUR PROPERTY
Notice is hereby given, pursuant to the Idaho Noxious Weed Law Section 22-2405, Idaho Code, to every person who owns or controls land in Lewis County, Idaho that noxious weeds standing, being, or growing on such land shall be destroyed or eradicated by effective cutting, tillage, cropping, pasturing, or treating with chemicals or other effective methods or combination thereof, approved by the County Weed Superintendent, as often as may be required to prevent the weed from blooming and maturing seeds, or spreading by root, root stalks or other means.
Upon Failure to observe this notice the County Weed Superintendent is required to proceed pursuant to the law and have the weeds destroyed by such methods as he finds necessary, the expense of which shall constitute a lien and be entered as a tax against the land and be collected as other real estate taxes are collected or by other means as provided by law.
BY ORDER OF THE LEWIS COUNTY WEED AUTHORITY
GREG JOHNSON, CHAIRMAN
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
The following weeds are hereby officially designated and published as noxious as per the authority vested in the Director of Agriculture by Section 22-2403, Idaho Code.
Statewide Prohibited Genera
Cytisus
Genista
Spartium
Chameacytisus
Statewide Early Detection Rapid Response List
Brazilian Elodea
Water Chestnut
Giant Salvinia
Purple Starthistle
Tall Hawkweed
Policeman's Helmet
Giant Hogweed
Iberian Starthistle
Syrian Beancaper
Fanwort
Yellow Devil Hawkweed
Variable-LeafMilfoil
Squarerose Knapweed
Common/European frogbit
Water Hyacinth
Hydrilla
Feathered Mosquito Fern
Yellow Floating Heart
Statewide Control List
Black Henbane
Mediterranean Sage
Bohemian Knotweed
Musk Thistle
Buffalobur
Orange Hawkweed**
Giant Knotweed**
Small Bugloss
Common Reed (Phragmites)
Perennial Sowthistle
Dyer's Woad
Russian Knapweed
Eurasian Watermilfoil
Scotch Broom**
Meadow Knapweed
Japanese Knotweed**
Vipers Bugloss(Bluegrass)
Johnsongrass
Yellow hawkweed**
Matgrass
Common Crupina**
Parrotfeather Milfoil
Statewide Containment List
Canada Thistle**
Dalmatian Toadflax**
Diffuse Knapweed
Leafy Spurge
Puncturevine**
Yellow Flag Iris
Spotted Knapweed**
Tansy Ragwort
Rush Skeleton Weed**
Field Bindweed**
Hoary Alyssum
Oxeye Daisy**
Purple Loosestrife
Perennial Pepperweed
Poison Hemlock**
Curlyleaf Pondweed
Whitetop (Hoary Cress)
Yellow Starthistle**
Houndstongue**
Salt Cedar
Scotch Thistle**
Yellow Toadflax**
White Bryony
Jointed GoatGrass**
Millum
Plumeless Thistle
Flowering Rush
**Noxious weeds typically found in Lewis County
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