Buxus sempervirens (
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.
Buxus colchica of western
Caucasus and
B. hyrcana of northern
Iran and eastern Caucasus are commonly treated as synonyms of
B. sempervirens.