Berberis vulgaris
Common or European Barberry
Berberis vulgaris- ANPC Rank –
- Moss, Flora of Alberta – No
- Global Invasive Species Database –
- NatureServe Rank – Medium/Low formerly widely cultivated;can crowd out native understory species esp.open areas such as shrub wetlands.
- Haber, Upland –
- Haber, Wetland –
- CWF, Status & Invasive Range –
- Alberta Revegetation Guidelines –
- The Nature Conservancy –
- CBCN –
- AB Weed – Prohibited Noxious
Remarks
Occurs in BC, ID, MT, and SK, and prohibited in many US Jurisdictions.
[1] "Berberis vulgaris L., common barberry, épine-vinette commune Tall shrub, usually 4 to 8 feet (12 to 24 dm.) high; clusters of yellow flowers and, later, bright red berries; sporadic in uncultivated habitats; largely eradicated from main grain-growing areas. Alternate host for a serious fungus disease, stem rust of wheat, oats, barley, and some other grasses. Introduced from Europe, probably as an ornamental; importation and sale now prohibited." - Canadian Weed Science Society
[2] Biology of black stem rust in wheat (for which common barberry is the primary alternate host, obligate for sexual reproduction of the fungus, without which new virulent strains rarely emerge). - USDA Cereal Disease Laboratory, 2001.
[3] Stem rust of wheat, Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, on Wheat and barley, common barberry (and some additional Berberis, Mahoberberis, and Mahonia spp.) - The American Phytopathological Society, 2011
[4] Link to USDA Plants Database, Berberis vulgaris L.
References
Map references
sample: Map data for T. ramosissima