For more information, visit Woody Invasives of the Great Lakes (WIGL) Collaborative and Midwest Invasive Species Information Network (MISIN). Autumn olive is a prevalent invasive in downstate Michigan ...

Autumn Olive is a fast-growing, invasive shrub that is capable of fixing, or producing, its own nitrogen. Because Autumn Olive can naturally add nitrogen to the soil, it may be able to restore ...

One invasive tree to avoid growing is the autumn olive, Elaeangus umbellate,' says plant expert, Katie Sunderlage, based in Wisconsin. 'This tree can easily spread through agricultural fields and ...

Thanks to pervasive propaganda, many assume so-called invasive plant species serve no purpose in nature — even harms nature. Well, nature disagrees.

Columnist Shannon Brennan writes that with this week being National Invasive Species Awareness Week, we must take more action in controlling non-native plants.

Because the struggle against invasives is such a persistent one, it can help to consider how the most unlikely of allies ...

Autumn olive (Elaeagnus umbellata) is a non-native invasive shrub from Asia that is increasingly problematic in much of the U.S. Midwest. Much of the competitiveness of autumn olive is due to its ...