The gently pretty pom pom flower and gorgeous red sunflower are called evil beauties for their invasive nature‚ and now Government is making their eradication - as well as other "weeds" - the legal responsibility of property owners. The Environmental Affairs department said on Wednesday that South African municipalities have until 1 October 2016 to outline their plan for controlling invasive species on all public land in the city."Like municipalities‚ every land owner in the country also has to remove invasive species on land that they own‚" the department said. "Invasive species are now deemed a legal liability to every property owner in the country and the legislation will impact on estate agents and conveyancers." There are 559 listed invasive species listed in the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act (NEMBA) and the Alien and Invasive Species (AIS) Regulations.Every landowner also has a 'duty of care' to remove invasive species from their land.The new law also says that every seller of a property has to inform the buyer of a property of any invasive species on the property.The government wants estate agents in future to advertise ‘clean’ properties.Amongst the plants that are deemed invasive are the pom pom plant‚ which was introduced on the continent as an ornamental flower in people’s gardens and apparently have become a threat to the conservation of the grasslands of South Africa.The red sunflower‚ indigenous to Mexico‚ is an annual that grows up to 3m in height and is apparently proliferating near waterways‚ along railways and roadsides...