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Michigan Just Joined The List Banning The Japanese Barberry Shrub: Is Your State Next?

The Japanese barberry shrub is known as an invasive plant throughout the United States. Some states have banned it and ...
Interlochen Public Radio

Michigan could make six invasive plant species illegal, including a few popular flowering plants

The Michigan Department of Agriculture & Rural Development (MDARD) could prohibit or restrict several invasive plant species, the popular landscaping Callery pear tree and Japanese barberry shrub ...
Michigan Technological University

Keweenaw Invasive Species Management Area (KISMA)

Japanese barberry, a woody shrub in the Berberidaceae family, is an understory invasive that can live in many different soil and light conditions. It has nitrogen containing roots (giving them a ...
The Herald-Times

These 3 popular landscaping plants could destroy Monroe County's forests

Once you know what to look for, you'll probably see invasive species that threaten area forests everywhere you look. But it takes time for people to begin to recognize the spread of popular landscape ...
Richmond

Japanese Barberry: Beautiful plants or garden thugs?

I planted two Japanese Barberry plants three years ago that I bought from a reputable garden center. They have multiplied like rabbits – I only wish rabbits liked to eat them. Today I pulled up twenty ...