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HOLLY FAMILY
(AQUIFOLIACEAE)
 
Bird food:  Fruit eaten by blue jays, bluebirds, brown thrashers, cardinals, catbirds, cedar waxwings, mockingbirds, red-bellied woodpeckers, robins, sapsuckers, sparrows, thrushes, towhees, others
 
Butterfly larval food Wildlife food Wildlife shelter:  good cover
  • Gallberry:  nesting for bears
 
 
name
 
area
flower
& fruit
 
season
 
other

Dahoon holly
  Ilex cassine
NCSwhite
red
Sp
FW
s/st
Gallberry
  Ilex glabra
NCSwhitish-green
black
SpSuWs
Scrub holly
  Ilex opaca
NCwhite
red
Sp
FW
s/st
Yaupon holly
  Ilex vomitoria
NCSwhite
red
Sp
FW
s/st
Codes: N=north
C=central
S=south
Sp=spring
Su=summer
F=fall
W=winter
a=annual
b=biennial
p=perennial
s=shrub
t=tree
v=vine
i=invasive
 
ta=toxic to animals
th=toxic to humans

 
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