Brunswick County, NC Invasive Plant Rules: Prohibited Species (2026)

A. That section requires the plan to be prepared by a landscape architect or another qualified person unless the Planning Director grants an exemption, and it directs applicants to choose plant material from the county's standard plant list in Appendix E, Appendix B, covering approved Canopy Trees, Understory Trees and Shrubs. C. Cooperative Extension provides a letter of approval, and any approved substitute is then added to the standard list going forward. 6 adds that use of known invasive or problem plants is strongly discouraged, again pointing back to Appendix B for the plant listings.

That is guidance built into the approved-species process, not a stand-alone prohibition with its own violation trigger; the ordinance regulates through the required plant list and plan-approval process rather than through naming and banning individual invasive species. Because this requirement is tied to the landscape-plan process, ordinary single-family homeowners planting their own yards outside a reviewed development are not reached by it, and the standard applies only in the unincorporated county, not inside Leland, Southport, Oak Island or Brunswick County's other incorporated towns.