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§1 Plant
Forestiera ligustrina (Michx.) Poir.
vernacular upland swampprivet — species · Oleaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Oleaceae Hoffmanns. & Link
- Genus
- Forestiera
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 85 counties across 7 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 85 counties across 7 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Bedford 47003
- Cheatham 47021
- Davidson 47037
- DeKalb 47041
- Dickson 47043
- Franklin 47051
- Giles 47055
- Lawrence 47099
- Lewis 47101
- Lincoln 47103
- Madison 47113
- Marion 47115
- Marshall 47117
- Maury 47119
- Moore 47127
- Putnam 47141
- Rutherford 47149
- Smith 47159
- Sumner 47165
- White 47185
- Williamson 47187
- Wilson 47189
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/FOLI ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3172392 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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