Is it native here?

USDA records this plant as growing wild in your county before European settlement.

Recorded in your county, but arrived from elsewhere — naturalised, not native.

USDA has no record of it growing wild in your county, native or otherwise.

A legal status, not an ecological one: your state names the plant in statute. Which chip you get turns on what the rule obliges, and of whom. Prohibited — no sale, movement, propagation or possession. Restricted — still sold or held, but under conditions, such as retail signage, an identification tag, or a carve-out for sterile cultivars. Listed — designated, but the duty to control it falls on landowners rather than on the nursery trade. We link the rule; the judgment is the state's, not ours.

An ecological finding, and a different question from the law. GRIIS — the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species — lists the plant as invasive in the lower 48 states. For a few plants that are invasive only in some regions, the tag appears only in those states, cited to that state’s invasive plant council or agency. Most invasive plants carry no state listing at all and are sold freely, so a plant without this tag is not thereby safe, and a plant without a legal tag is not thereby harmless.