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Wild Privet

Ligustrum vulgare

6,265Records since 2000
JunePeak month
107Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan127
Feb162
Mar215
Apr323
May462
Jun1,041
Jul605
Aug466
Sep655
Oct963
Nov595
Dec182

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England344
2Cambridgeshire England297
3Oxfordshire England189
4Kent England161
5Surrey England129
6Portsmouth England108
7Norfolk England99
8Devon England95
9Suffolk England93
10Gloucestershire England89
11Telford and Wrekin England88
12Somerset England85
13Lincolnshire England59
14Herefordshire, County of England58
15Halton England56
3,993 England36 Scotland73 Wales9 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 107 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
6,265
Peak month
June
Counties with records
107
Scientific name
Ligustrum vulgare
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
27,893
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Lamiales
Family
Oleaceae
Genus
Ligustrum
Name with authority
Ligustrum vulgare L.
Contributing datasets
40

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1848856 · GBIF 3172300