Silver Buffaloberry (Shepherdia argentea (Pursh) Nutt.)
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Legend | Color |
Native | |
Expanded | |
Native or Not Present | |
Native or Expanded | |
Expanded or Not Present |
This tentative map is based on our own research. It may have limited data on Canada and/or Mexico, and there is some subjectivity in our assignment of plants as introduced vs. expanded. Read more in this blog post.
This plant is widely used in landscaping as an ornamental, and also used in windbreaks, land reclamation, and erosion control. It has bird-distributed fruit and can escape into the wild, which has led it to establish at scattered sites east of its native range. It is not particularly competitive in the more humid east, and remains uncommon to rare. We mark the new parts of its range expanded because most populations cluster close to the native range, although the more distant, isolated occurrences could perhaps be marked introduced as well.
↑Links & External Resources
• Silver Buffaloberry | Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) (About This Site)
• Shepherdia argentea (silver buffaloberry) | USDA PLANTS Database (About This Site)
• Shepherdia argentea (Silver Buffaloberry) | Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder (About This Site)
• Silver Buffaloberry | Virginia Tech Dendrology Factsheets (About This Site)
• Shepherdia argentea | Biota of North America Project (BONAP) (About This Site)
• Shepherdia argentea | NatureServe Explorer (About This Site)
• Shepherdia argentea | Flora of North America (About This Site)