Other common names:
Lilac Family: Olive Family (Oleaceae) Distinctive features: Shrub Flowers: Spring, Summer; White, Blue/Violet; Showy, range from white to blue to pink to purple. Leaves: Opposite/Whorled, Simple, Entire Habitat: Fields and Open Areas; Open areas. Books: Trees in Canada: 187 Native/Non-native:
Non-native Status:
Common.
Notes:
Although Common Lilac is known primarily as a garden shrub, I have included it on this website because it frequently escapes and grows wild.
Origin and Meaning of Names:
Scientific Name: vulgaris: common (Latin) For more information visit: Ontario Trees and Shrubs Photographs:
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Common Lilac flowers are well known. They are very showy and fragrant.
Close-up photo of the individual flowers.
There are also white ones.
A grove of Common Lilac in May.
The opposite arrangement of the leaves.
The leaves are approximately heart-shaped.
The remains of the previous year's seed capsules.
Winter twig.
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