Hollywood, FL Invasive Plant Rules: Prohibited Species (2026)

01, which bans planting Casuarina (Australian pine) anywhere in the city and extends that ban to any species on Category I or II of the Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council's invasive list, as carried in the city's Landscape Manual. The ban has stood since Ordinance 633 and was amended in 1988, 2003 and 2006 to keep pace with the state's invasive list. It reaches both private yards and municipal land, expressly naming rights-of-way and swale areas so a homeowner cannot plant a banned species in the swale strip between the sidewalk and the street.

25: Brazilian pepper, poisonwood, melaleuca, Australian pine, bischofia, earleaf acacia, Norfolk Island pine, schefflera, lead tree and carrotwood. 26(A) lets property owners cut them down without a removal permit, unlike the DBH-three-inch-and-up trees the rest of the chapter protects. The City Landscape Inspector, under the Office of Planning, administers both the planting ban and the Landscape Manual's Category I/II list, and reviews site plans for compliance before construction. Anyone who wants to know whether a specific ornamental qualifies as banned should check the current Landscape Manual, since the list is amended from time to time rather than frozen in the ordinance text itself.