Taxon: Ilex vomitoria Sol. ex Aiton

See also subordinate taxa:

• Ilex vomitoria forma pendula (no accessions)

Common names:

• winterberry   (Source: Zander Ency ) – English
  
• yaupon   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Hollies)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Lampe & McCann)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Ilex vomitoria from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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)
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Oklahoma
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas [s.w.], Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia [s.e.]
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Chiapas, Veracruz

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Bermuda

• also cultivated

References:

• Clark, R. C. 1971. The woody plants of Alabama. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 58:197.
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• 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.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976).
• Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. 1985. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• 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.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Ilex vomitoria.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Ilex vomitoria.

Check other web resources for Ilex vomitoria Sol. ex Aiton:

• 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
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Ilex vomitoria 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:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• 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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