Probably some sort if Privet but you’re going to have to provide close ups of leaves and flowers to get a proper id.

One quick google search and that’s exactly what it is!! I didn’t expect to luck up and have a dogwood. None of this was planted or maintained- mothernature did its own thing here. Thank you, I’ll get out my chainsaw and round up.

Thank you so much Floral

I'd still like a closeup to confirm the most likely privet ID. Black Cherry can also look that that in bloom.

I’m headed out now

Ligustrum sp. will always have opposite arrangement of branches and simple leaves; not so with Prunus sp.

That's a very happy Privet, but it needs to be deleted.

Up close. It has a strong scent.

Apart of our ongoing battle.

It's a privet, Ligustrum species, non-native invasive. Clearing out the vine encrusted jungle is no easy task.

Watch out! There’s a bunch of poison ivy bottom left. In the middle is Virginia creeper. Nice tulip tree though.

Poisoned Ivy is to be expected in the vine encrusted jungle full of invasives. May be Bittersweet, Celastrus, in there too.

Thank you all so much!! I’m trying to save the natives & salvage the overtaken trees but some are way too challenging to save. the Tulip tree is beautiful!! I guess we cut enough vine’s back last year that it was able to bloom this year!! Beautiful flowers fell from the sky all spring! there is a sloping downward portion of land behind this thicket i have no real plans for. Just trying to tidy it up esp when the kids come out back to play. It looks like very thick almost wooded vines were traveling from tree to tree. thank you all again for your help. Some of these vines are very ugly, some have thorns and I cut some sort of huge thick vine that immediately begin to weap a good bit of liquid. 😳

Remove the privet or you will have a bunch more seedlings next year. It will be an ongoing task but they pull up pretty easily if you start when they are little.

I just cut it down at the base

Floral you have a good eye for plants not native to the British Isles! I saw a funny picture on the web years ago: at some botanical garden in the UK is a Toxicodendron sp. in a wrought iron cage.

If you cut junk or invasive plants at the base, you ought to treat them to stay dead or else you will be back to cut them again, and again, and again. My preferred method is a commercial glyphosate diluted to 25% and mixed with a bit of surfactant and blue dye for marking purposes. Bring a 3/8" inch drill, dental irrigation syringe and herbicide solution to "job site". Drill hole in cut stems and fill with the dyed "roundup" solution - aiming for at least 1.5" deep. Guaranteed to work as long as there's no rain to wash it out in 24h. Dose roughly as follows: anything < 1 inch, 1 hole, 1-4 inches diameter, 1-1.5 holes per inch diameter around the edge, > 4 inches diameter, a hole every 2-3 inches along the outer edge. (hopefully you didn't let the weed tree get that big!)

Thank you David. We purchased this property a year and a half ago. its a larger foreclosure fix Me upper that was never quite cared for.