I can see Japanese barberry Berberis thunbergii

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Also called Thunberg's barberry and red barberry.

Part of barberry  family Berberidaceae.

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 mice  Peromyscus leucopus, black-legged deer ticks  genus Ixodes, and the Lyme disease bacterium  Borrelia burgdorferi. [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.

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