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Ilex glabra
Also called Appalachian Tea, Bitter Gallberry, Gallberry, Canadian Winterberry, Winter Berry, Evergreen Winterberry
Inkberry is an evergreen native shrub from eastern North America, grown for its glossy dark leaves and black berries. It does best in acidic, moist, well-drained soil and tolerates wet or boggy sites.
Ilex glabra (; EYE-leks GLAY-bruh), also known as Appalachian tea, evergreen winterberry, Canadian winterberry, gallberry, inkberry, dye-leaves and houx galbre, is a species of evergreen holly native to the coastal plain of eastern North America, from coastal Nova Scotia to Florida and west to Louisiana where it is most commonly found in sandy woods and peripheries of swamps and bogs. Ilex glabra is often found in landscapes of the middle and lower East Coast of the United States. It normally is cultivated as an evergreen shrub in USDA zones 6 to 10.
English holly · Dahoon · Ilex chapaensis · Ilex chinensis · Large gallberry · Japanese holly · Marsh Holly · Possumhaw · Guayusa · Elegance female holly · Ilex kaushue · Tarajo Holly
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ilex glabra 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.
