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§1 Plant
Ligustrum vulgare L.
vernacular European 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
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 268 counties across 23 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- High
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 130 min.
- Precipitation
- 18–50 in/yr
- pH range
- 5–7.5
- Root depth
- 2 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 12 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 12 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Moderate
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Black
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 18,600
- Propagation
- seed, cuttings, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 268 counties across 23 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 17 I ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 25 I ▾
- Alexander 17003
- Cass 17017
- Champaign 17019
- Christian 17021
- Coles 17029
- Cook 17031
- Crawford 17033
- DuPage 17043
- Kane 17089
- Kendall 17093
- Lawrence 17101
- Macon 17115
- Marion 17121
- Mason 17125
- McDonough 17109
- McHenry 17111
- Peoria 17143
- Piatt 17147
- Pope 17151
- Randolph 17157
- Schuyler 17169
- St. Clair 17163
- Tazewell 17179
- Union 17181
- Will 17197
Indiana view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 28 I ▾
- Bath 21011
- Bell 21013
- Bracken 21023
- Calloway 21035
- Campbell 21037
- Carlisle 21039
- Clark 21049
- Fayette 21067
- Floyd 21071
- Grant 21081
- Graves 21083
- Henry 21103
- Hickman 21105
- Jefferson 21111
- Kenton 21117
- Knox 21121
- Leslie 21131
- Lyon 21143
- Madison 21151
- Mason 21161
- Mercer 21167
- Montgomery 21173
- Nicholas 21181
- Oldham 21185
- Shelby 21211
- Trigg 21221
- Wayne 21231
- Woodford 21239
Maine view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 15 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 18 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 18 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 43 I ▾
- Ashland 39005
- Ashtabula 39007
- Athens 39009
- Auglaize 39011
- Belmont 39013
- Butler 39017
- Carroll 39019
- Champaign 39021
- Columbiana 39029
- Coshocton 39031
- Cuyahoga 39035
- Delaware 39041
- Erie 39043
- Fairfield 39045
- Franklin 39049
- Geauga 39055
- Greene 39057
- Henry 39069
- Highland 39071
- Hocking 39073
- Holmes 39075
- Huron 39077
- Jackson 39079
- Knox 39083
- Lake 39085
- Lawrence 39087
- Licking 39089
- Lorain 39093
- Lucas 39095
- Mahoning 39099
- Medina 39103
- Meigs 39105
- Miami 39109
- Monroe 39111
- Morgan 39115
- Muskingum 39119
- Ottawa 39123
- Perry 39127
- Portage 39133
- Stark 39151
- Summit 39153
- Trumbull 39155
- Wayne 39169
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 27 I ▾
- Adams 42001
- Allegheny 42003
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bucks 42017
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Cumberland 42041
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Erie 42049
- Franklin 42055
- Fulton 42057
- Huntingdon 42061
- Lancaster 42071
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Lycoming 42081
- Montgomery 42091
- Montour 42093
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
- Snyder 42109
- Warren 42123
- Westmoreland 42129
- York 42133
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 15 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 7 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 18 I ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/LIVU ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3172300 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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