round drupes from July-September flowers are small, clustered, green-yellow, and have five petals Note: Glossy buckthorn is commonly mistaken with dogwood. A key difference between these two species ...

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

There are many nasty actors in our forests. Two of the worst are buckthorn and autumn olive. Both hail from Europe and were introduced as ornamentals in the 1800s. Autumn olive was once also promoted ...

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