Botanical Sciences and Native Plant Materials Research, Restoration, and Promotion Act
A BILL
To promote botanical research and botanical sciences capacity, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Definitions
In this Act:
Invasive plant species— The term invasive plant species means a plant species that is nonnative with respect to an ecosystem and whose introduction into that ecosystem will cause, or is likely to cause—
economic harm;
environmental harm; or
harm to—
human health;
animal health; or
plant health.
Locally adapted— The term locally adapted means, with respect to a plant, a plant that—
originates from an area that is geographically proximate to a planting area; and
is environmentally adapted to, and likely to succeed in becoming established and persisting within, that area.
Native plant species— The term native plant species means indigenous terrestrial and aquatic plant species that evolved naturally in a defined native ecosystem.
Nonnative plant species— The term nonnative plant species means a plant that has been introduced by humans to a location outside the native or natural range of the plant and may, depending on relevant facts and circumstances, include a species introduced from—
another continent;
another ecosystem;
another seed zone; or
another habitat within an ecosystem.
Plant material— The term plant material includes, with respect to a native plant species or a nonnative plant species, such a plant or material of the plant capable of propagating that species, including—
the seeds of the plant;
the eggs of the plant;
the spores of the plant; or
other biological material of the plant.