Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Ilex decidua
Ilex decidua Walter
Possumhaw, Possumhaw Holly, Deciduous Holly, Meadow Holly, Prairie Holly, Swamp Holly, Welk Holly, Deciduous Yaupon, Bearberry, Winterberry
Aquifoliaceae (Holly Family)
USDA Symbol: ILDEUSDA Native Status: L48 (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Ilex decidua
Possum-Haw, Winterberry, Deciduous Holly
Aquifoliaceae
Location: On N R.O.W. of Hwy 46, .8 km E of US Hwy 281.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Full sun. Dry, rocky, limestone soil. Dense colony.
Description: Tree, 4 m tall, 8 cm dia, bark silver-gray; twigs glabrous. Leaves fascicied on ends of short spurlike lateral branches (which are alternate), deciduous; young ones membraneous, mature ones firm, pale beneath, petiolate (2+mm), oblanceolate to ovate, 2x4 cm. Flowers not present. Fruit a red, globose drupe, 5+ dia. Stones 4, 4.5+ mm long.
County: Comal
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Oct 19, 1990
Specimen number: 403
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0592
Accession Date: Nov 23, 1993
Accession Number: 44
Annotations: Originally identified as found in Bexar county.
DXFXC
(pistillate)(in fruit)