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Ilex mucronata
Also called Mountain Holly, Catberry Holly
Catberry (Ilex mucronata) is a deciduous, cold-hardy holly shrub from eastern North America that bears red berries and yellow autumn color. It grows best in moist, acid soil in full sun or part shade, and plants are usually male or female, so a pollinator of the other sex is needed for berries.
Ilex mucronata, the mountain holly or catberry, is a species of holly native to eastern North America, from Newfoundland west to Minnesota, and south to Maryland and West Virginia.
The plant does best in full sun, or part shade is good. It usually grows in moist or draining wet acid soils, often with the similar species of common winterberry, Ilex verticillata, but is also found on upland cliffs and slopes on hills and mountains. It develops a yellow autumn color. It is recommended for use in naturalistic landscapes. Its USDA hardiness zone recommendation is zones 4 to 6. The name "mountain holly" is also sometimes used for the related mountain winterberry (Ilex montana).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ilex mucronata 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.
