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Mistletoe is listed in the Composite List of Weeds of the Weed Science Society of America (EPPO 2024). Viscum album L. is protected by law in northern European countries. In Sweden, legal protection of mistletoe was introduced as early as 1910, and in Norway in 1956 (Wallden 1961). Under state protection, mistletoe is also found in Latvia, where it is treated as a relict of the post-glacial Atlantic period (Riekstinš 1980).