| Author | L. | |
| Distribution | Scattered in the Mountains and Piedmont, plus the Sandhills of Cumberland and Moore counties. First collected in 1891 by John K. Small at Blowing Rock Mountain in Watauga County.
Native of Mediterranean Europe and northern Africa; in N.A. throughout the Eastern states and Ontario; scattered westward. | |
| Abundance | Rare to uncommon throughout. | |
| Habitat | Woodland borders, margins of fields, vacant lots, near creeks. | |
| Phenology | Flowering May-June. It reaches anthesis about a week before L. sinense, where the 2 occur together. | |
| Identification | This evergreen shrub is very similar to the abundant and troublesome Chinese Privet (L. sinense), which see. Differences can be subtle, but Weakley (2018) provides a number of characters to choose from. Possibly the most obvious is that the upper leaf surface is rather shiny (vs. somewhat dull in Chinese Privet). | |
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| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | GNR | |
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| USACE-agcp | UPL link |
| USACE-emp | FACU link |
