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Autumn olive

Invasive

Elaeagnus umbellata

Oleaster (Elaeagnaceae) · Invasive · 10–20 ft

Knowing it

Silver-backed leaves, fragrant spring flowers and red speckled berries; planted for wildlife, now blanketing old fields and roadsides statewide.

What a tree company sees

Thorny shrub; cut-and-treat or it comes right back.

Recorded in 90 counties

From GBIF occurrence records. No record does not mean absent.