Rhamnus frangula (Frangula alnus) the alder buckthorn is a tall deciduous shrub in the family Rhamnaceae. It is native to Europe northernmost Africa and western Asia from Ireland and Great Britain north to 68N in Scandinavia east to central Siberia and Xinjiang in western China and south to northern Morocco Turkey and the Alborz and Caucasus Mountains; in the northwest of its range (Ireland Scotland) it is rare and scattered. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
Plant