Index / Search / Ligustrum obtusifolium
§1 Plant
Ligustrum obtusifolium Siebold & Zucc.
vernacular border privet — species · Oleaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Oleaceae Hoffmanns. & Link
- Genus
- Ligustrum
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 130 counties across 15 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 130 counties across 15 states/territories.
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 18 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 13 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 17 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 28 I ▾
- Adams 42001
- Allegheny 42003
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bucks 42017
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clinton 42035
- Cumberland 42041
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Erie 42049
- Forest 42053
- Franklin 42055
- Huntingdon 42061
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Lycoming 42081
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
- Schuylkill 42107
- Warren 42123
- York 42133
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/LIOB ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3172296 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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