Noxious Weeds and Illegal Plants
Agnes deLanvallei March 2005
"Noxious Weed" is a legal status.
There are plants grown in the Middle Ages that can be grown in Calontir but cannot be.
That is, growing them is against the law.
These are two kinds of plants: noxious weeds and illegal species.
Don't grow them. Modern law will make no exceptions for hobbyists.
However, if the plant is a noxious weed, gathering and using can function as a form of control.
Don't let it get away, don't spread the seeds.
Illegal plants are just that: illegal. Leave them alone.
Plants used in the Middle Ages that are noxious weeds or illegal in the states that are Calontir today:
|
COMMON NAME |
SCIENTIFIC NAME |
STATUS |
NOTES |
MEDIEVAL USES |
|
marijuana, hemp, "weed" |
Cannabis spp. |
illegal |
Wild or cultivated, possession is illegal |
as fiber (rope, cheap cloth); medicinally |
|
wild blackberry complex, bramble |
Rubus fruticosus |
noxious weed |
Federal Noxious Weed List |
edible berries |
|
wild safflower, distaff thistle, jeweled distaff thistle |
Carthamus oxyacantha |
noxious weed |
Federal Noxious Weed List |
relatives are dye or oil plants |
|
buckhorn, buckhorn plaintain |
Plantago lanceolata |
noxious weed |
AR IA |
|
|
teasels |
Dipsacus fullonum and D. laciniatus |
noxious weed |
MO |
carding wool |
|
sheep sorrel |
Rumex acetosella |
noxious weed |
IA |
|
|
smooth dock |
Rumex altissimus |
noxious weed |
IA |
|
|
wild carrot |
Daucus carota |
noxious weed |
IA |
wild carrot |