Index / Search / Rhamnus cathartica
§1 Plant — species · Rhamnaceae
Rhamnus cathartica L.
vernacular common buckthorn
§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
§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.
§4Montana distribution
Recorded in 27 of 56 Montana counties.
Introduced · 27 counties
- 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
§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-2026-05-25
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