June’s weed of the month is glossy buckthorn (Frangula alnus). Glossy buckthorn is a highly invasive large shrub or small tree native to Europe and Asia. It threatens riparian, wetland ...

Common buckthorn trees and shrubs are difficult to control once they get a foothold. Here's how to manage these landscape ...

Glossy buckthorn, a small, woody tree from the Rhamnaceae family, is an understory invasive that produces large amounts of seeds and outcompetes many native species. It’s also both sun and shade ...

but glossy buckthorn is is one of the worst, as they say, invasive species we have in new hampshire. it rapidly has taken over our native plants, native forest areas.

Common buckthorn and glossy buckthorn retain their leaves well into late fall, so now is a good time to identify and control this invasive shrub. Buckthorn out-competes native plants, degrades ...

If gone unnoticed, the glossy buckthorn can grow to more than 12 metres, crowding out native species like pines and maples. The Pugwash River Estuary, ...

Goats are a nontoxic, easily transportable tool for removing invasive species like glossy buckthorn. × Goats may very well be the greatest of all time—GOATs, literally and figuratively!—when it comes ...

The Swedetown Trails Club and the Keweenaw Invasive Species Management Area are teaming up to clear out invasive glossy buckthorn from the trails’ system this summer, and they are inviting anyone to ...

Buckthorn: Common and Glossy. This shrub can grow over 20 feet tall and may be most easily identified by its bark, which is dark gray or brown with lighter colored horizontal lines called ...

Common buckthorn is 10-25 feet tall when mature, and glossy buckthorn is 10-20 feet tall. If it’s buckthorn and it’s tall, it’s invasive. All three have small, ...

Common buckthorn, the most prevalent in Minnesota, and glossy buckthorn are the two species brought to Minnesota in the 1800s as ornamental shrubs and privacy hedges. The state restricts them as ...

Glossy buckthorn is a small tree or shrub whose berries are eaten by birds, spreading the plant. It aggressively spreads in wetlands, choking out native plant and animal habitats.