New University of Minnesota research suggests that seeding native plants alongside invasive removal efforts may turn the tide in the battle against buckthorn. Buckthorn is one of Minnesota's most ...

“It’s a three-, four-, five-, even six-year commitment.” Buckthorn plants grow so thickly that they don’t allow light in, so native plants and grasses underneath the plant die. Mature ...

And as it turns out, buckthorn's biggest enemy might just be the plants playing on Minnesota's home team. Read more: 13 New Animal Species That Were Discovered In 2024 Minnesota's native grasses ...

The buckthorn was winning, and I didn’t like it. My original plan was to tackle the buckthorn plants that were two inches in diameter or less. Height-wise, these plants were 6 to 8 feet tall.

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 ...

Common buckthorn, a woody shrub/small tree in the Rhamnaceae family ... and covered in very prominent lenticels female plants produce numerous black, round, bird-dispersed drupes that are persistent ...

Work has begun to clear invasive plants to help protect "fragile and precious" species in sand dunes. Diggers are removing two areas of buckthorn, a small spiny tree, from Warkworth Dunes which ...