When I moved here in 2005 no one checked my plants. You should be okay.

Beca

I've been going and returning for 30 years and have never been inspected. I made several trips from Utah to Nevada with a U-Haul that contained some plants some years ago without inspection.

I know that there is no plant inspection coming from California to Nevada, at least on I-80. There is plant inspection GOING from Nevada to California, though. I buy plants in California fairly frequently, and make no effort to hide them coming home.

I suppose if a Nevada State Trooper pulled me over it *might* be a problem, but I kinda doubt it. The assumption is that you bought the plants up at one of the nurseries at Lake Tahoe or Truckee and nobody seems to care about that.

Arizona and California have tight plant restrictions because of their produce industries. They have enough trouble with their own pests and diseases that they don't want any more coming in. Nevada doesn't have a huge produce industry, so they don't have tight restrictions.

Lisa

The only plant restriction that I know exists in Nevada is the taking of native plants from their natural habitat. You can't take e.g. Yucca, other native succulents and conifers from the wild and taking them home.

The plant restrictions in AZ and CA are due to agricultural pests and larvae residing in plants and fruits/vegetables coming in. Non native plants, such as eucalyptus, have diseases that can't be controlled because pest are here, but their biological controls aren't. Southern California has year round mild temperatures and therefore year round pests in many areas. They can't risk having anymore. That was the case of the med fly. Without frost, some deaths have been reported because of human interaction with killer bees. Their populations are controlled in part by cold winters like Nevada has.

See the bolded section in the attached link (2nd paragraph)

Here is a link that might be useful: Nevada Native plants