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 dense shade cast by Norway maple can prevent sunlight from reaching the forest floor, inhibiting the growth of native ...

What is a Japanese spider crab? They may look like something from a 1950s sci-fi film, but Japanese spider crabs are gentle giants. And giants they are. Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on ...

These native plants offer just as much beauty as invasive species, but won't grow out of control. A lot of plants that have ...

Fall’s a good time to plant an understory When the innermost needles ... And although many exotic shrubs, such as Rhododendron and Japanese plum yew, would serve the purpose, I’m focusing ...

Patrick Varine Sunday, Nov. 14, 2021 12:01 a.m. | Sunday, Nov. 14, 2021 12:01 a.m. State agriculture officials have had it with Japanese barberry. After considering it previously in 2018 ...

The students spent the first few weeks of their fall ecology course staking out the plots, then conducting thorough surveys of the trees and understory within the ... such as garlic mustard and ...

Japan adopts Chinese written characters. Shotoku Taishi (574-622) begins to shape Japanese society and government more after the pattern of China. He seeks centralization of government and a ...

Japanese is a language isolate, spoken by 121 million people in Japanese archipelago. There are small Japanese communities in American Samoa, Hawaii, North and South ...

Passionate and knowledgeable, a soil expert and "terroir-ist", Isabelle Legeron brings the earth to life. Leaving stones unturned, she revels in the thrilling complexity of this seemingly static ...

Managing Oregon grape is similar to managing the more abundant Japanese barberry. loosen soil with shovel pulling ... and downy arrowwood (Viburnum rafinesquianum) are native understory shrubs that ...