Using Native Sassafras and Carolina Buckthorn in Landscaping

Wooded lot with wild sassafras and Carolina buckthorn (Rhamnus caroliniana). Worth transplanting?

Sassafras: Interesting mitten leaves, fall color, but suckers aggressively. Keep a few as specimens; remove most.
Carolina Buckthorn: Produces bird-spread berries → weedy mess. Remove entirely.

Clear buckthorn. Selectively keep 1–3 sassafras for character. Plant cultivated natives with better behavior: serviceberry, redbud, dogwood.

Wild volunteers rarely make good landscape plants.

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