European Privet Scientific Name: Ligustrum vulgare
Description: A shrub introduced from Europe, largely used for hedges, 4-10' high, with long, slender spreading, abundantly leafy branches.
Habitat: An escape from cultivation, along thickets and roadsides.
Range: From Ontario and western New York to Pennsylvania and North Carolina.
Type: Shrub Source:Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs by F. Schuyler Mathews
Photograph: Nava Tabak, Invasive Plant Atlas of New England from www.forestryimages.org. |
