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§1 Plant
Frangula alnus Mill.
vernacular glossy buckthorn — species · Rhamnaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Rhamnaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Frangula
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 198 counties across 18 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 198 counties across 18 states/territories.
Illinois view state ↗ 18 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 22 I ▾
- Alpena 26007
- Benzie 26019
- Berrien 26021
- Delta 26041
- Emmet 26047
- Ingham 26065
- Jackson 26075
- Kalamazoo 26077
- Leelanau 26089
- Lenawee 26091
- Livingston 26093
- Mackinac 26097
- Macomb 26099
- Marquette 26103
- Menominee 26109
- Monroe 26115
- Oakland 26125
- Osceola 26133
- Schoolcraft 26153
- Van Buren 26159
- Washtenaw 26161
- Wayne 26163
Minnesota view state ↗ 12 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 9 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 11 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 21 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 25 I ▾
- Ashland 39005
- Ashtabula 39007
- Carroll 39019
- Columbiana 39029
- Crawford 39033
- Cuyahoga 39035
- Geauga 39055
- Henry 39069
- Huron 39077
- Knox 39083
- Lake 39085
- Licking 39089
- Lorain 39093
- Lucas 39095
- Mahoning 39099
- Medina 39103
- Miami 39109
- Portage 39133
- Richland 39139
- Stark 39151
- Summit 39153
- Trumbull 39155
- Tuscarawas 39157
- Wayne 39169
- Wood 39173
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 16 I ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 31 I ▾
- Ashland 55003
- Barron 55005
- Bayfield 55007
- Brown 55009
- Calumet 55015
- Chippewa 55017
- Columbia 55021
- Dane 55025
- Door 55029
- Green 55045
- Green Lake 55047
- Iron 55051
- Jackson 55053
- Jefferson 55055
- Kenosha 55059
- Marathon 55073
- Marinette 55075
- Menominee 55078
- Milwaukee 55079
- Oconto 55083
- Portage 55097
- Racine 55101
- Rock 55105
- Sheboygan 55117
- Taylor 55119
- Walworth 55127
- Washington 55131
- Waukesha 55133
- Waupaca 55135
- Winnebago 55139
- Wood 55141
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/FRAL4 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3039454 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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