#1721 most planted
Ilex glabra
Appalachian tea · also Evergreen winterberry, Canadian winterberry, Gallberry
SpreadingEvergreen
21
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
1
city
18 yr
median age (100% have a planting date)
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Ilex glabra is an evergreen holly, typically maturing to 5–8 ft tall, that can spread by root suckers to form colonies. It is native to the coastal plain of eastern North America, commonly found in sandy woods and peripheries of swamps and bogs. Gallberry nectar is a source of honey, indicating value to pollinators.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 210.02%18 yr—
Traits
- Form
- Spreading
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Mature height
- 5–8 ft
- USDA zones
- 6–10
- Soil
- Sandy
- Water needs
- Moderate
- Roots
- Moderate
- Wildlife value
- High
- Tolerates
- coastal, salt
Native range
Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
- East Central Texas forests
- Mississippi lowland forests
- New England-Acadian forests
Other Ilex in the catalogue
17 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
