Autumn Olive     Information
INVASIVE
Scientific Name:Elaeagnus umbellata


NOTES: Highly invasive shrub native to eastern Asia.

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Autumn Olive
Genus species: Elaeagnus umbellata
Common Name: Autumn Olive
Family Name: Elaeagnaceae  
Shrubs with silvery-scaly pubescence, sometimes thorny; leaves alternate, simple, usually silvery below, entire or serrate; flowers mostly bisexual, in racemes; fruit drupelike but an achene surrounded by flesh.
Seed Type: Angiosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Nonnative
Category:Shrub
Flower Color:Yellow
CNC Habitat: Krippendorf Arboretum
Identified by:M. Becus
Months in Bloom:  
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