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Syringa saugeana (common lilac)

Attributes

Bee Flower Color [1]  Blue
Flower Color [2]  Purple
Foliage Color [2]  Green
Fruit Color [2]  Brown
Bloom Period [2]  Late Spring
Drought Tolerance [2]  Medium
Edible [3]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Fire Tolerance [2]  High
Flower Type [3]  Hermaphrodite
Frost Free Days [2]  3 months 20 days
Fruit/Seed Abundance [2]  Medium
Fruit/Seed Begin [2]  Summer
Fruit/Seed End [2]  Summer
Growth Form [2]  Rhizomatous
Growth Period [2]  Spring, Summer
Growth Rate [2]  Moderate
Leaf Type [3]  Deciduous
Lifespan [4]  Perennial
Pollinators [3]  Bees, Lepidoptera
Propagation [2]  Bare Root, Container, Seed
Root Depth [2]  14 inches (36 cm)
Scent [3]  The flowers are very aromatic
Seed Spread Rate [2]  Slow
Seed Vigor [2]  Medium
Seeds Per [2]  90720 / lb (200003 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [2]  Erect
Structure [3]  Shrub
Usage [3]  An essential oil is obtained from the flowers. Used in perfumery; A green dye is obtained from the flowers; Green and brown dyes can be obtained from the leaves; A yellow-orange dye is obtained from the twigs; Plants can be grown as an informal hedge; The plant is often used as a rootstock for the various ornamental cultivars of lilac. Its main disadvantage is that it can sucker very freely;
Vegetative Spread Rate [2]  Moderate
Flower Conspicuous [2]  Yes
Height [3]  20 feet (6 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [2]  USDA Zone: 3 Low Temperature: -40 F° (-40 C°) → -30 F° (-34.4 C°)
Light Preference [5]  Mixed Sun/Shade
Soil Acidity [5]  Moderate Acid
Soil Fertility [5]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [5]  Moist
Water Use [2]  Moderate
Screening - Summer [2]  Dense
Screening - Winter [2]  Moderate
View Plants For A Future Record : Syringa saugeana

Protected Areas

Emblem of

New Hampshire

Predators

Providers

Pollinated by 
Anthrenus verbasci (varied carpet beetle)[10]
Eurystylus coelestialium[10]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Erysiphe syringae[10]
Phellinus pomaceus (Cushion Bracket)[10]
Phyllactinia guttata[10]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 4PLANTATT - Attributes of British and Irish Plants: Status, Size, Life History, Geography and Habitats, M. O. Hill, C. D. Preston & D. B. Roy, Biological Records Centre, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (2004)
♦ 5ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 6Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 7HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 8Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 9New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
♦ 10Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0