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AQUIFOLIACEAE - - Holly Family
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Carolina Holly (Ilex ambigua) - Shrub or small tree rarely up to 6m tall, the purple twigs glabrous; leaf-blades elliptic, oval, or suborbicular, 4—7cm long, serrulate or crenulate-serrulate, at least above the middle; drupe globose-oval, 6—7mm in diameter, red.
Sandy upland forests, dry slope forests, rarely in pocosin ecotones in the fall-line sandhills region.
Habitat information from:
Weakley, Alan S., Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States, Working Draft of 21 May 2015.
The range of Ilex ambigua (Carolina Holly)
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 ambigua (Carolina Holly)
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/.
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