OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Ligustrum obtusifolium var. obtusifolium   FAMILY Oleaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ligustrum obtusifolium   FAMILY Oleaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Ligustrum obtusifolium var. obtusifolium

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Ligustrum obtusifolium

 

COMMON NAME:
Border Privet


         To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.

image of Ligustrum obtusifolium var. obtusifolium, Border Privet

Leslie J. Mehrhoff, University of Connecticut, Bugwood.org     bug_5453177

Month Unknown        

image of Ligustrum obtusifolium var. obtusifolium, Border Privet

Leslie J. Mehrhoff, University of Connecticut, Bugwood.org     bug_5453188

Month Unknown        

Flowers unpleasantly fragrant, borne in nodding panicles, per Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Dirr, 1975+).

image of Ligustrum obtusifolium var. obtusifolium, Border Privet

Leslie J. Mehrhoff, University of Connecticut, Bugwood.org     bug_5453196

Month Unknown        

Fruit is a black to blue-black (dark gray) slightly bloomy berry-like drupe, per Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Dirr, 1975+).

image of Ligustrum obtusifolium var. obtusifolium, Border Privet

Leslie J. Mehrhoff, University of Connecticut, Bugwood.org     bug_5453209

Month Unknown        

image of Ligustrum obtusifolium var. obtusifolium, Border Privet

Leslie J. Mehrhoff, University of Connecticut, Bugwood.org     bug_5453233

Month Unknown        

image of Ligustrum obtusifolium var. obtusifolium, Border Privet

Leslie J. Mehrhoff, University of Connecticut, Bugwood.org     bug_5453240

Month Unknown        

image of Ligustrum obtusifolium var. obtusifolium, Border Privet

Leslie J. Mehrhoff, University of Connecticut, Bugwood.org    bug_5453240b

Month Unknown        

Lvs elliptic-oblong, 2.5-6cm x 0.8-2.5cm, hairless green above, hairy below, per A Field Guide for the Identification of Invasive Plants in Southern Forests (Miller, Chambliss, & Lowenstein, 2010).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Ligustrum obtusifolium var. obtusifolium   FAMILY Oleaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ligustrum obtusifolium   FAMILY Oleaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Ligustrum obtusifolium var. obtusifolium

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Ligustrum obtusifolium

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2499

Shrub
Perennial

Habitat: Disturbed places, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Japan

Rare

map
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)


INVASIVE

This plant is causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:

 

LEAVES:
Semi-evergreen
Simple
Opposite
Petioles almost absent or to 6mm long

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White/Cream
Radially symmetrical
4-merous
Synsepalous calyx
4-lobed funnelform corolla
2 stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual

Inflorescence a many-flowered terminal panicle

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Black/ Purple-black
Drupe

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!



 


Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME: