How Native Plants Can Beat Buckthorn Minnesota's native grasses and wildflowers can play a pivotal role in beating back the ...

The new potential ally is crown rust, or Puccinia coronata, a fungus found on most buckthorn plants in the state. Crown rust is a notorious attacker of wheat, oats and barley that's been studied ...

"It's literally mushroom soup," he says. Stone, an undergraduate majoring in ecology and evolutionary biology, is living proof that you don't have to wait until you graduate to tackle the complex ...

Goats may very well be the greatest of all time—GOATs, literally and figuratively!—when it comes to controlling the spread of invasive buckthorn. Easy to transport, able to access dense growth areas ...

Buckthorn and other exotic plant species can take over a plot of land, squeezing out native plants. Insects with plant-specific diets might find their necessary plants disappearing or gone.

Purchasing invasive plants online may be way easier than you think 02:25. As Minnesotans gear up for the growing season, the University of Minnesota has a warning about where you buy your plants.

Buckthorn is nasty stuff but it’s no match for a determined community of volunteers. Determined volunteers attacked the buckthorn invading the Webb Park forest and Popple Nature Area in ...

The leaves of a buckthorn tree are seen at the Kilborn Allotment Gardens in Ottawa on May 23. Birds and other wildlife eat the small berries, helping it to spread. (Gabrielle Huston/CBC) ...

And they’re looking at other invasive species, too, plants like honeysuckle and common buckthorn that also take over the understory of forests to see, can we find this connection between ticks and ...