Buckthorn grows fast and thick, out-competing the vast majority of native plants and shrubs for sunlight and then starving them under its shade.

Buckthorn, which can grow up to 22 feet, forms dense thickets that block the sun from native plants. It's recognizable as being among the last plants to hold onto its leaves in the fall and one of ...

Minnesota's native grasses and wildflowers can play a pivotal role in beating back the invasive plant buckthorn, which possesses a key advantage in its ability to retain leaves late into the fall.

Meanwhile, the invasion of buckthorn and its removal is estimated to have cost Minnesota millions, not including all the hard-to-quantify impacts from lost native biodiversity, said Mike Schuster ...

That allows a plant like buckthorn to grow and spread rapidly and overwhelm a non-native environment. “It grows uncontrolled,” Nowak said. “If we have 350 acres of conservancy zone, we ...

"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 ...

Student researchers in Minnesota aim to find a solution to eliminate buckthorn 01:57. MINNEAPOLIS — Researchers at the University of Minnesota are looking at the best ways to battle an invasive ...

Native to northern and central Europe, ... Sea buckthorn berries are rich in vitamins, carotenoids (plant pigments), and fatty acids, while the seeds offer a rich oil high in fatty acids.

When you do the hard work to remove buckthorn you'll want to replace it with native plants that will help keep the nasty buckthorn at bay. The idea is that the new plants will out-compete any new ...