There are some small trees mixed in with the trees and shrubs along the back of my yard. Their leaves are staying green much ...

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, the most widely-found variety, has glossy green leaves with noticeable ... and there’s a small thorn at the ...

There are many nasty actors in our forests. Two of the worst are buckthorn and autumn olive. Both hail from Europe and were ...

She also calls the glossy buckthorn a “woody invasive” species ... Resh hoped to find a different way to combat invasive plants instead of using chemicals like pesticides.