When does waxyleaf privet bloom in Texas?

Most often in June. Across 350 dated, research-grade observations of Ligustrum quihoui in Texas, the flowering season runs roughly June.

Peak June In flower 350 Examined 2,506 State Texas

Flowering 350 in flower of 2,506 examined

43%

68%

19%

10%

Proportion of examined Ligustrum quihoui in Texas in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	1	180	1%	0% to 3%
Feb	0	190	0%	0% to 2%
Mar	0	207	0%	0% to 2%
Apr	15	400	4%	2% to 6%
May	146	337	43%	38% to 49%
Jun	114	167	68%	61% to 75%
Jul	22	115	19%	13% to 27%
Aug	4	79	5%	2% to 12%
Sep	12	213	6%	3% to 10%
Oct	17	177	10%	6% to 15%
Nov	14	233	6%	4% to 10%
Dec	5	208	2%	1% to 6%

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Ligustrum quihoui in Texas observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 350 of 2,506 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.wt38fd.

What this is, and what it is not

This is a record of when people in Texas found Ligustrum quihoui in flower, not a forecast. It is computed only from observations made in Texas, so it is not the species’ global average dragged onto a map: the same plant flowers on different dates in different places, and that is the entire point of the page.

It will not tell you what your particular plant will do this year. Bloom time moves with the season, with altitude, and with the weather, and a warm February pulls everything forward. We publish the distribution and the sample size, and we refuse to draw a month that too few people examined.

The plant

Ligustrum quihoui

waxyleaf privet

Sourcesevery claim on this page

GBIF (iNaturalist Research-grade Observations). Dated flowering annotations in Texas. Every record achieved iNaturalist quality grade Research, which is applied upstream at export. 10.15468/dl.wt38fd. Retrieved 2026-07-14.
World Flora Online Plant List. The accepted name. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.