Ligustrum sinense Louriere

Locations ofLigustrum sinense Louriere in Virginia

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Family
Oleaceae
Botanical Name
Ligustrum sinense Louriere
Common Name
Chinese Privet
Synonym(s)
Flora of Virginia Name/Status
Ligustrum sinense Lour.
Comments
This species is a thoroughly naturalized nonnative shrub that has become a noxious invasive in forest understories, especially in bottomlands.
Habitat
Mesic to dry-mesic upland forests, old fields, fencerows, other disturbed uplands, and various wetlands; especially common in alluvial floodplain forests. Frequent to locally common in the Coastal Plain and Piedmont; less frequent and limited to low elevations in the mountains.
Native Status
Introduced

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