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Good day,

I'm writing to express my support for the listing of the newly proposed plant species to be regulated under the Invasive Species Act. I lack the expertise to comment on organisms other than plants.

I do have one question about the listing of Azolla as a genus. According to some sources, A. filiculoides is native in British Columbia and A. caroliniana is native in Ontario (i.e., Brouillet et al. 2020+, Canadian Endangered Species Conservation Council 2022, FNA 1993+, POWO 2023). Has this been taken into account and might this affect their inclusion in the regulation?

Thank you.

References:
Brouillet, L., Coursol, F., Meades, S. J., Favreau, M., Anions, M., Bélisle, P. and Desmet, P. 2010+. VASCAN, the database vascular plants of Canada. [Online] Available: http://data.canadensys.net/vascan/ [2023].

Canadian Endangered Species Conservation Council. 2022. Wild Species 2020: The General Status of Species in Canada. National General Status Working Group.

FNA. 1993+. Flora of North America north of Mexico. 22+ vols. Flora of North America Editorial Committee, New York and Oxford. [Online] Available: http://floranorthamerica.org/Main_Page [2023].

POWO. 2023. Plants of the world online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Kew Science. [Online] Available: http://powo.science.kew.org/ [2023].