Lilac
സിരിങ വൾഗാരിസ്
Syringa vulgaris L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 3.7 m
- wide
- 2.7 m
Oleaceae
Also called Common lilac, Common Lilac
Formerly Lilac caerulea, Lilac vulgaris, Liliacum album, Liliacum vulgare, and 3 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- N. Balkan Pen. to NC. RomaniaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 2.4 m to 4.9 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 1.8 m to 3.7 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, pink, purple, blueRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension blue, cream, pink, purple, white; Wikipedia blue, pink, purple, red, violet, white, yellow
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- SYRVUL, lehina, Եղրևանի սովորական
- German
- Gemeiner Flieder, Gewöhnlicher Flieder
- French
- Lilas commun, Lilas français, lilas commun
- Czech
- šeřík obecný
- Chinese
- 歐丁香, 欧丁香, 欧丁香（洋丁香）
- Chinese (China)
- 欧丁香, 洋丁香
- Swedish
- syren
- Danish
- Almindelig syren
- Russian
- Сирень обыкновенная
- Norwegian Bokmål
- syrin
- Estonian
- harilik sirel
- Croatian
- Jorgovan
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Syringa vulgaris (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.