AQUIFOLIACEAE - - Holly Family

Ilex cassine Linnaeus — Dahoon Holly

Dahoon Holly (Ilex cassine) - Shrub, or small tree 12 m. tall, with smooth gray bark, usually pubescent twigs; leaf-blades leathery, oblanceolate or elliptic, or rarely obovate, 4—10 cm. long, obtuse, acute, or rarely retuse at the apex, more or less revolute, dark-green and glabrous above, pale and more or less pubescent beneath, or sometimes glabrous, rather slender petioled; calyx 1.5—2 mm. broad; corolla 4—4.5 mm. broad; drupe globose, 6—9 mm. in diameter, red or sometimes nearly yellow.

Habitat:

Blackwater stream swamps, pocosins, nearly always in very acid peaty or sandy sites.

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

The range of Ilex cassine (Dahoon 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)].