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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Buxales |
| Family: | Buxaceae |
| Genus: | Buxus |
| Species: | B. sempervirens
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| Binomial name | |
| Buxus sempervirens | |
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| Distribution range of Buxus sempervirens | |
Buxus sempervirens, the common box, European box, or boxwood, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Buxus, native to western and southern Europe, northwest Africa, and southwest Asia, from southern England south to northern Morocco, and east through the northern Mediterranean region to Turkey.[1][2][3] Buxus colchica of western Caucasus and B. hyrcana of northern Iran and eastern Caucasus are commonly treated as synonyms of B. sempervirens.[4][5]
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- ^ "Flora Europaea Search Results". Websites.rbge.org.uk. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
- ^ British Trees: Buxus sempervirens Archived 2006-11-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Buxus sempervirens". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
- ^ Med-Checklist: Buxus colchica, Ww2.bgbm.org