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Taxon: Ligustrum vulgare L.

Genus: Ligustrum
Family: Oleaceae tribe: Oleeae.
Nomen number: 22101
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:7. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 24-May-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 24-May-1995
Species priority site is: North Central Regional PI Station (NC7).
Accessions: 27 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Common names:

  • common privet   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • European privet   (Source: Pl Book ) – English
  • privet   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 ) – English
  • wild privet   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  • gewone liguster   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  • raisin de chien   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • troène vulgaire   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • Liguster   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  • ligustro   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Italian
  • olivella   (Source: F Ital ) – Italian
  • alfena   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  • alfenheiro   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  • ligustro   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  • alheña   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • ligustro   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish

Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • AFRICA
    Northern Africa: Morocco
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Western Asia: Iran [n.w.]; Turkey
    Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
  • EUROPE
    Northern Europe: Ireland; Norway [s.e.]; Sweden [s.w.]; United Kingdom
    Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
    East Europe: Moldova; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
    Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy; Romania
    Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal; Spain

      Naturalized: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
  • naturalized in s. Africa, Australia, New Zealand, United States, & Azores

References:

  • Botanical Society of the British Isles. 2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
  • Conant, P. et al. 1997. Appendix. Selected plant species interfering with resource management goals in North American natural areas. In J. O. Luken & J. W. Thieret, eds., Assessment and management of plant invasions. (Pl Invasion)
  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
  • Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage. (Zander ed14)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist. (L Medit)
  • Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12. (Weeds SAfr 2001)
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
  • Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
  • Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976). (Krussmann)
  • Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. (Pl Book)
  • Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system - on-line resource. (Can Poison Pl)
  • Pignatti, S. 1982. Flora d'Italia. (F Ital)
  • Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. (F Iraq)
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
  • Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora. (Eur Gard F)
  • Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
  • Zohary, M. et al. 1980–. Conspectus florae orientalis. (L Orient)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Ligustrum vulgare L.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority for Ligustrum vulgare cultivars
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?22101 (09 February 2010)

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