AQUIFOLIACEAE - - Holly Family

Ilex verticillata (Linnaeus) A. Gray — Winterberry

Winterberry (Ilex verticillata) - Shrub, or small tree sometimes 7 m. tall, with glabrous or slightly pubescent twigs; leaf-blades thickish, elliptic or oval, varying to ovate or obovate, 2—8 cm. long, acute or acuminate at both ends, more or less pubescent beneath, often strongly reticulate, serrate; staminate calyx about 2.5 mm. wide; staminate corolla 6—7 mm. wide; drupe 6—8 mm. in diameter, red.

Habitat:

Bogs, pocosins, swampy forests.

Habitat information from:
Weakley, Alan S., Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States, Working Draft of 21 May 2015.

The range of Ilex verticillata (Winterberry)

Kartesz, J.T., The Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2015. North American Plant Atlas. (http://bonap.net/napa). Chapel Hill, N.C. [maps generated from Kartesz, J.T. 2015. Floristic Synthesis of North America, Version 1.0. Biota of North America Program (BONAP). (in press)].

The Georgia range of Ilex verticillata (Winterberry)

Zomlefer, W.B., J.R. Carter, & D.E. Giannasi. 2014 (and ongoing). The Atlas of Georgia Plants. University of Georgia Herbarium (Athens, Georgia) and Valdosta State University Herbarium (Valdosta, Georgia). Available at: http://www.georgiaherbaria.org/.