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

Get some tips on how to recognize and eradicate glossy buckthorn, an invasive species.

But glossy buckthorn has white petals, while alderleaf buckthorn flowers technically have no petals at all, only sepals, and the flower is greenish, not white. A greenish-yellow, five-pointed star ...

Common buckthorn takes over woodlands, savannas, and prairies. Glossy buckthorn takes over fen, bog and sedge meadow communities, as well as mesic upland sites, such as prairies.

Scientists think a fungus could conquer invasive buckthorn Chain saws, shears, chemicals and goats are losing the battle against the noxious plant.

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 ...

The Orleans County Natural Resources Conservation District has secured $600,000 in federal grant funding to address soil and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Of all the non-native, invasive plants in the Northeast, buckthorns are among the most hated by forest stewards. There are two types of invasive buckthorn in our region: glossy buckthorn (Frangula ...

Future work will quantify the effects on invasive reed canarygrass and glossy buckthorn in greenhouse experiments. Efforts are ongoing to document the occurrence of various crown rust fungi on ...