- (1) Nursery dealers transporting horticultural plants into the state must legibly tag or identify each species or variety of plant in the shipment in a conspicuous manner with the botanical name and/or the common name.
(2) Nursery dealers displaying horticultural plants for retail sale must tag or identify each variety or species of each unit of sale in a conspicuous manner with the botanical name, and/or the common name, or provide this information to any person upon request.
This requirement does not apply to containers or baskets with mixed species of perennials, annuals or biennials.
- (3) Nursery dealers must tag or identify collected horticultural plants with the botanical name, the common name and designate the plants as collected.
- (4) To determine compliance with state and federal quarantines, the botanical name of each horticultural plant transported or sold in the state must be made available to the director upon request.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 15.13 and 34.05 RCW. WSR 04-09-084, § 16-402-030, filed 4/20/04, effective 5/21/04.]