found: ITIS * North America, via WWW, Feb. 22, 2008(Ligustrum. Rank: Genus. Vernacular names: ligustrum; privet. Family: Oleaceae--olives)
found: NCBI taxonomy browser, Feb. 22, 2008(Ligustrum (privets). Rank: genus. Tribe Oleeae, Family Oleaceae)
found: NatureServe explorer, via WWW, Feb. 22, 2008(lists 8 species of Ligustrum, all with "privet" in common name)
found: GRIN taxonomy for plants, via WWW, Feb. 22, 2008(Genus: Ligustrum L. Family: Oleaceae tribe Oleeae. Common name: privet)
found: Plants database, via WWW, Feb. 22, 2008(Ligustrum L. - privet. Family Oleaceae)
found: Wikipedia, Feb. 22, 2008(Privet, originally the name for the European semi-evergreen shrub Ligustrum vulgare, and later also for the more reliably evergreen Ligustrum ovalifolium (Japanese privet). The term is now used for all members of the genus Ligustrum, which includes about 40-50 species of evergreen; placed in the olive family Oleaceae)
found: Web. 3(Ligustrum, a large genus of Old World shrubs, family Oleaceae, having smooth entire leaves and terminal panicles of white flowers--see privet; Privet, an ornamental Eurasian and northern African shrub, Ligustrum vulgare; any of various other plants of the genus Ligustrum)
