“I use it a lot.” Dense and thorny, Japanese barberry shrubs can be identified by their small, oval-like leaves and sometimes by the bright red berries they produce, Adler said. The shrubs are ...

The fruits, resembling elongated red berries ... When to collect barberry leaves and fruits? This thorny shrub often appears in parks as an ornamental plant. Beautiful yellow flowers bloom ...

December’s Weed of the Month is Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii). This species is a specially regulated plant on Minnesota’s Noxious Weed list.

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 ...

For more than two decades, Pia Van de Venne of Murrysville has been working to rid the municipality’s parks of invasive plants including barberry, garlic mustard and Japanese stilt-grass.