Common Lilac
Syringa vulgaris

Foliage: Sea green
Fall Foliage: Insignificant
Fruit: Capsule
Habit/Form: Upright
​Uses: Shrub border, hedges

Zone Hardiness:  3- 7
Plant Height: 12 – 15 ft
Plant Width: 8 – 10 ft
Light: Sun 
​Growth Rate: Medium to fast

The common lilac is an old-fashioned, long-lived, and well-loved lilac best known for its sweet fragrant flowers. It is extremely hardy and thrives with little care which makes it a lovely shrub for a specimen planting, in masses, screens, hedges, or mixed in shrub borders. Multi-stemmed and a bit leggy. The May blooming flowers are typically purple to lilac. There are many cultivars.