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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Volunteers with the Nature Conservancy of Canada pulled out and chopped down an invasive shrub on Sunday in Nova Scotia.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...