Yahoo: Michigan Just Joined The List Banning The Japanese Barberry Shrub: Is Your State Next? Michigan Just Joined The List Banning The Japanese Barberry Shrub: Is Your State Next? Japanese Barberry, an invasive shrub that has become widely-used in landscaping due to its color and ability to keep deer away, will soon be prohibited in Pennsylvania.

Understanding the Context

The Pennsylvania Department of ... Berkshire Eagle: Japanese barberry was once used predominantly in landscape hedges. Now, this ornamental shrub is banned in Massachusetts A: For E. B., especially: My guess is that you are thinking of Japanese barberry, a shrub that has been a long grown as a yard shrub and often kept well kept and nicely trimmed; even shared among ...

Key Insights

Japanese barberry was once used predominantly in landscape hedges. Now, this ornamental shrub is banned in Massachusetts Idaho Statesman: Yet another state bans this noxious shrub. What is wrong with the Japanese barberry? Japanese barberry is a “popular, non-native, ornamental shrub” that you can often find in nurseries, but yet another state is banning it. The newest state to announce a phased banning of the plant is ...

Final Thoughts

Yet another state bans this noxious shrub. What is wrong with the Japanese barberry?