Brooklyn Park, MN Invasive Plant Rules: Prohibited Species (2026)

1012, the mixed-use landscaping standards chapter, and pairs an approved planting list with a prohibited one. The banned species are American Elm, Amur Maple, Box Elder, Common Buckthorn, Cottonwood, North American Ash, Lombardy Poplar, Russian Honeysuckle, and Siberian Elm. Common Buckthorn and Amur Maple are two of Minnesota's most aggressive invasive woody plants, spreading into wooded areas and choking out native understory, which is why the city excludes them from any required landscape plan rather than leaving the choice to a developer or landscape architect.

1013, that reference the same species table for required trees and shrubs. 303 that specifies a prohibited species will not be approved as meeting the chapter's minimum tree and shrub requirements, since the code's approved list steers applicants toward substitutes like Freeman Maple, Ginkgo, Hackberry, Imperial Honey Locust, Little Leaf Linden, and several disease-resistant elm cultivars instead. The City Manager can approve additional species beyond the listed acceptable trees, but the nine prohibited species have no such waiver built into the table.