Davenport encourages native landscaping but enforces its nine-inch height limit unless you enroll in the Native Roots Program. Registration plus signage exempts native and prairie plantings from mowing and abatement.
Davenport's Native Roots Program lets residents grow native grasses, wildflowers, and prairie plantings above the nine-inch limit in Municipal Code 8.14.015. Without enrollment, the city treats tall natives as a weed nuisance and can mow and bill you. To qualify, you register the planting area, post program signage so crews recognize it, agree to keep it predominantly native, and re-register annually; enrollment ends if the area becomes dominated by non-native or invasive plants. Separately, the city's Native Plant Buffer Easement requires a minimum fifty-foot native vegetated buffer along streams in new subdivisions or improvements, mowed only about once a year to no less than six inches.
Unregistered native plantings over nine inches are enforced as a weed nuisance under 8.14.045: $100 / $200 / $500, each day separate, plus city mowing costs assessed against the property.
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