Skip to content
Syringa villosa, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
(c) 红梅, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by 红梅 · CC BY-NC
#1868 most planted

Syringa villosa

Villous lilac · also Late lilac, Japanese lilac

16
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
2
cities
23 yr
median age (38% have a planting date)

Report an issue with this species

Syringa villosa is a temperate shrub growing up to 4 meters tall, featuring long, highly fragrant flowers in red, white, pink, or purple hues that bloom in early summer. It is native to Korea, the Russian Far East, and northern China.

Where it grows

Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.

  1. Ottawa · Canada
    10——
  2. Boston · United States
    623 yr—

Traits

Mature height
13.1 ft
Blooms
Jun, Jul

Native range

Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.

Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests

  • Central China Loess Plateau mixed forests
  • Central Korean deciduous forests
  • Northeast China Plain deciduous forests

Other Syringa in the catalogue

13 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.

Interested in talking trees? arborary.world@gmail.comTree data © the respective municipal publishers and © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).