Super-smelly callery pear trees and prickly Japanese barberry shrubs have been targeted for new regulations by state ...

TRAVERSE CITY, MI – There are two widely popular landscaping shrubs wreaking havoc on forests across Michigan and the Midwest: Japanese barberry and winged burning bush. The bushes are known to ...

Extension educator Kathy Zuzek has written an informative article about the Japanese barberry. The plant is considered a nuisance now because it reproduces so rapidly. Avoid planting this bush in your ...

State scientists believe removing a common, invasive shrub called Japanese barberry (berberis thunbergii) can help reduce the Lyme disease-carrying tick population by as much as 60 percent, but they ...

AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) – Ride through just about any neighborhood in Western New York and you will likely see many of the small, dark red variety of Japanese barberry shrubs. They have been a favorite ...

Armed with pitchforks, trimmers and “root slayer” shovels, on Saturday morning, residents cleared out the plants from the ...

AIRWAY HEIGHTS, Wash. — Landowners will be responsible for removing barberry bushes as a way to help stop the stem rust that attacks wheat, a Washington State University Extension specialist says. A ...

This is the first installment of "Take on Invasives," a monthly series submitted by conservation-focused nonprofit Huron Pines. Articles will focus on invasive plants commonly found in Northern ...

Japanese barberry, a red-berried ornamental shrub that graces many a yard in Lancaster County, and Bradford pear trees, still celebrated for their explosion of white blossoms on Lancaster city streets ...

The Japanese barberry bush may be pretty to look at, but state officials say it’s a nursery for ticks. The prickly shrub also spreads quickly, choking out native plants. “It’s very pretty this time of ...