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Garden Privet

Ligustrum ovalifolium

3,921Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
105Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan138
Feb203
Mar253
Apr321
May302
Jun478
Jul641
Aug502
Sep441
Oct235
Nov160
Dec114

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Sefton England742
2Liverpool England138
3St. Helens England133
4Worcestershire England91
5Sheffield England80
6Halton England77
7Warrington England34
8North Tyneside England34
9Norfolk England33
10Oxfordshire England28
11Portsmouth England28
12Devon England27
13Cornwall England26
14Essex England26
15City of Edinburgh Scotland25
3,265 England57 Scotland18 Wales6 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 105 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,921
Peak month
July
Counties with records
105
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Ligustrum ovalifolium
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
16,647
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Lamiales
Family
Oleaceae
Genus
Ligustrum
Name with authority
Ligustrum ovalifolium Hassk.
Contributing datasets
27

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1938923 · GBIF 3172291