Ilex glabra
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| Inkberry | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Aquifoliales |
| Family: | Aquifoliaceae |
| Genus: | Ilex |
| Species: | I. glabra |
| Binomial name | |
| Ilex glabra (L.) Gray | |
'Compacta' leaves
Ilex glabra, also known as Appalachian Tea, Dye-leaves, Evergreen Winterberry, Gallberry, and Inkberry, is a species of evergreen holly native to Eastern North America in the United States and Atlantic Canada. Its native range is from seashore Texas and Florida north to New Hampshire and Nova Scotia, as well as the southern Ohio and Mississippi Valleys. Perhaps better known in English than in American gardens, the upright, bushy plant grows six to eight feet tall and is often used as an ornamental "bearing in the fall a profusion of black berries."[1] Gallberry nectar is the source of a pleasant honey that is popular in the southern United States.
References
- ↑ Cloud, Katherine Mallet-Prevost. The Cultivation of Shrubs (Chapter IX: Cultural Instructions), Dodd, Mead & Company, 1927, p. 191.
External links
- The Ohio State University: Ilex glabra
- UConn Plant Database: Ilex glabra
- [http://www.nswildflora.ca/species/Aquifoliaceae/IlexGlabra/species.html: Ilex glabra]
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