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Ilex coriacea
Also called Bay Gallbush, Sweet Gallberry
Large gallberry is an evergreen holly-family shrub native to the southeastern United States, growing in pine understory, bogs and wet sandy soils. It does best in acidic, moist soil and tolerates periodic fire.
Ilex coriacea, sometimes known as large gallberry or sweet gallberry, is a shrub in the holly family native to coastal areas in the United States from Virginia to Texas. It exists primarily as an understory plant in pine forests, and is sometimes managed by controlled burnings, resprouting from rhizomes.
Ilex coriacea is a facultative wetland plant and can be found in sandy, moist to wet soils in bogs, at the edges of ponds and in seepage swamps called baygalls. It is planted as an ornamental and prefers acidic soils.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ilex coriacea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
