Index / Search / Rhamnus cathartica
§1 Plant
Rhamnus cathartica L.
vernacular common buckthorn — species · Rhamnaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Rhamnaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Rhamnus
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 318 counties across 27 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 318 counties across 27 states/territories.
Colorado view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 24 I ▾
- Adams 17001
- Boone 17007
- Carroll 17015
- Coles 17029
- Cook 17031
- Crawford 17033
- DeKalb 17037
- DuPage 17043
- Grundy 17063
- Hancock 17067
- Jersey 17083
- Kane 17089
- Kendall 17093
- Lake 17097
- LaSalle 17099
- Lee 17103
- McDonough 17109
- McHenry 17111
- Ogle 17141
- Peoria 17143
- Rock Island 17161
- Vermilion 17183
- Will 17197
- Winnebago 17201
Indiana view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 15 I ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 39 I ▾
- Aitkin 27001
- Anoka 27003
- Benton 27009
- Big Stone 27011
- Blue Earth 27013
- Cass 27021
- Chisago 27025
- Clay 27027
- Dakota 27037
- Douglas 27041
- Fillmore 27045
- Freeborn 27047
- Goodhue 27049
- Hennepin 27053
- Houston 27055
- Isanti 27059
- Kanabec 27065
- Kittson 27069
- Lac qui Parle 27073
- Le Sueur 27079
- Mower 27099
- Norman 27107
- Pipestone 27117
- Polk 27119
- Pope 27121
- Ramsey 27123
- Redwood 27127
- Rice 27131
- Roseau 27135
- Scott 27139
- Sherburne 27141
- Sibley 27143
- St. Louis 27137
- Todd 27153
- Traverse 27155
- Washington 27163
- Watonwan 27165
- Winona 27169
- Wright 27171
Missouri view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 27 I ▾
- Blaine 30005
- Carbon 30009
- Cascade 30013
- Chouteau 30015
- Custer 30017
- Fallon 30025
- Fergus 30027
- Flathead 30029
- Gallatin 30031
- Glacier 30035
- Hill 30041
- Lewis and Clark 30049
- Missoula 30063
- Musselshell 30065
- Pondera 30073
- Ravalli 30081
- Richland 30083
- Roosevelt 30085
- Sheridan 30091
- Silver Bow 30093
- Stillwater 30095
- Teton 30099
- Toole 30101
- Valley 30105
- Wheatland 30107
- Wibaux 30109
- Yellowstone 30111
Nebraska view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 8 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 14 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 33 I ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Chemung 36015
- Clinton 36019
- Columbia 36021
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Lewis 36049
- Livingston 36051
- Madison 36053
- Monroe 36055
- Nassau 36059
- New York 36061
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Ontario 36069
- Orange 36071
- Orleans 36073
- Oswego 36075
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Saratoga 36091
- Schenectady 36093
- Schuyler 36097
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Suffolk 36103
- Ulster 36111
- Washington 36115
- Westchester 36119
North Dakota view state ↗ 17 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 17 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 17 I ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 3 I ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Utah view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 29 I ▾
- Ashland 55003
- Brown 55009
- Calumet 55015
- Columbia 55021
- Dane 55025
- Dodge 55027
- Dunn 55033
- Fond du Lac 55039
- Green Lake 55047
- Iowa 55049
- Jefferson 55055
- Kenosha 55059
- La Crosse 55063
- Lafayette 55065
- Milwaukee 55079
- Outagamie 55087
- Ozaukee 55089
- Pierce 55093
- Polk 55095
- Price 55099
- Racine 55101
- Richland 55103
- Rock 55105
- Sauk 55111
- Walworth 55127
- Washington 55131
- Waukesha 55133
- Waushara 55137
- Winnebago 55139
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/RHCA3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3039491 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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