ILEX VERTICILLATA

Scientific Name: Ilex verticillata (L.) Gray.

Common Name: Winterberry

Family: AQUIFOLIACEAE

Large shrub, twigs glabrous or pubescent. Leaves deciduous, dull to lustrous above, prominently rugose and glabrous to pubescent beneath, obovate to elliptic or elliptic-oblanceolate, 4-10 cm long, 1.5-5 cm wide, serrate or crenate-serrate; petioles 7-17 mm long. Pedicels 1-5 mm long. Staminate flowers 3-25, in short, pedunculate cymes in the leaf axils. Pistillate flowers solitary, or in 3-flowered, sessile cymes in the axils of the leaves, rarely from nodes below the leaves. Flowers 5-7 merous, sepals ciliate. Drupe red, opaque, globose, 5-7 mm in diam.; pyrenes 5 or 10, smooth, 3-4 mm long. (n=18) April-May; September-November. Bogs, along streams, low woods; throughout. [Va., Ga., Ala., Miss., Tenn., W. Va.]
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