Brought from Asia in the 1860s as an ornamental plant, round leaf bittersweet is a perennial in the Celastraceae family. It is an invasive woody vine that inhabits suitable areas where it can find a ...

A few times while out hunting while still in my teens, I came across a plant that I’d never seen before. It was vine-like and had red berries with a yellowish sheath spilt open around the berry. I was ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Gardeners hoping to celebrate the beauty of American bittersweet - a native vine that produces orange berries in the fall and is used for wreaths - may be unwittingly buying an ...

ST. CLOUD, Minn. - An invasive plant that agriculture and forestry professionals describe as worse than buckthorn is establishing itself in Minnesota - in one case planted because nursery stock was ...

Q: I have spent the entire summer trying to reclaim an abandoned garden from a hideous infestation of Oriental bittersweet. Now I have been told my enemy is actually endangered native bittersweet and ...