Taxon: Ilex decidua Walter

Common names:

• possom-haw holly   (Source: Zander Ency ) – English
  
• possum haw   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• sommergrüne Winterbeere   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Hollies)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Indiana [s.]
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois [s.], Missouri [s.], Oklahoma [e.]
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Chihuahua, Coahuila

• also cultivated

References:

• Clark, R. C. 1971. The woody plants of Alabama. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 58:197.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Galle, F. C. 1997. Hollies. The genus Ilex.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.
• Godfrey, R. K. & J. W. Wooten. 1979–1981. Aquatic and wetland plants of southeastern United States, 2 vol.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541.
• Meyer, F. G. et al. 1994. A catalog of cultivated woody plants of the southeastern United States.
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Rehder, A. 1949. Bibliography of cultivated trees and shrubs.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Weakley, A. S. 2011. Flora of the southern and middle Atlantic states.
• Wunderlin, R. P. 1998. Guide to the vascular plants of Florida.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Ilex decidua.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Ilex decidua.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Ilex decidua.

Check other web resources for Ilex decidua Walter:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Ilex decidua cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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