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§1 Plant

Ligustrum sinense Lour.

vernacular Chinese privet — species · Oleaceae


USDA
LISI
GBIF
3172294
Rank
species
Chinese privet (Ligustrum sinense)
Platephotograph · Kai YanCC BY-NC-SA source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Shrub, Tree
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Oleaceae Hoffmanns. & Link
Genus
Ligustrum
§2a

Native status, by region

  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • PR Puerto Rico Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 435 counties across 15 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 435 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§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 435 counties across 15 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 11 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 42 I
Florida view state ↗ 21 I
Georgia view state ↗ 23 I
Indiana view state ↗ 1 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 36 I
Louisiana view state ↗ 57 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 3 I
Mississippi view state ↗ 45 I
Missouri view state ↗ 1 I
North Carolina view state ↗ 56 I
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I
South Carolina view state ↗ 24 I
Tennessee view state ↗ 28 I
Virginia view state ↗ 86 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/LISI ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/3172294 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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