Ligustrum ovalifolium

Photo Credit: 
Leslie J. Mehrhoff
UConn
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Can grow up to 16 feet tall with spreading, arching branches.  Flowers are creamy white and are unpleasantly scented.  Spreads via seeds and invades roadsides, woodlands and flood plains displacing native plants and forming dense thickets.

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Invasive Plant Atlas of New England

Plant Information

Common Name(s): 
California privet
Type: 
Non-Native
Shrubs, Trees
Native Region: 
Asia
Invasive Level: 
Level 2
Moisture: 
Dry
Moist
Light: 
Sun
Part Sun
Part Shade

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