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Also called Thunberg's barberry and red barberry.
Part of barberry family Berberidaceae in barberry/buttercup/poppy order Ranunculales.
Native to eastern Asia. 🗺 Map by county (🇺🇸 USA-48) (color key). Invasive > learn+quiz Invasive > 🌐︎ global Invasive > 🇨🇦 Canada, 🇺🇸 USA Invasive > report it! Invasive > 🇺🇸 USA Invasive > Michigan
🚼︎ For kids! This plant described in invasive species placemat series. Nice drawing. (page 38)
Uses by native peoples(Ethnobotany database) On No-Plant List by Seneca Nation of Indians. (pages 58 and 60)
In areas where Japanese barberry is invasive, it promotes in 👥︎ humans the terrible and difficult-to-treat ⚕︎ Lyme disease, for reasons having something to do with disease vectors 🦌︎ deer family Cervidae, 🐭︎ white-footed deer mouse Peromyscus leucopus and black-legged deer tick genus Ixodes, bringing the victim the disease-causing agent 🦠 Lyme disease bacterium genus Borrelia. [1] ticks and ⚕︎ tick-borne diseases (🇺🇸 USA CDC).
🇺🇸 In the USA, the USDA suggests those seeking a shrub with nice fruit replace this plant with native alternatives 🍓︎ strawberry bush Euonymus americanus, wax-myrtle Myrica cerifera, meadowsweet Spiraea latifolia or mapleleaf viburnum Viburnum acerifolium. [2] And the Lehigh Gap Nature Center suggests those seeking scented flowers and nice 🍂︎ autumn color replace this plant with native alternative Virginia sweetspire Itea virginica. [3] (pages 4 and 38) Native alternatives (Great Lakes green entries). (page 3) More native alternatives (Missouri Botanical Garden). Native alternatives (Pennsylvania). (page 3) And a buddy of ours JG recommends alternative pricklyash Zanthoxylum americanum.
Treatment methods and timing (40–45°N lat.) Management and Control (Wisconsin) Best Control Practices BCP (Michigan) Control and Alternatives (Maryland). (page 4)
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