Ilex Vomitoria

Mar, Apr, May

Shrubs, Trees, Shrub, Tree, Native Plant, Poisonous

Perennial, Woody

12-36 ft.

Small greenish-white flowers that appear on male and female plants in the spring (April). The flowers are fragrant but generally inconspicuous. They grow solitary or in pairs and are clustered on peduncles in leaf axils. Blooms from March to May., Dioecious (only functionally male or functionally female flowers borne on any individual plant); male flowers 2-several clustered in fascicles in the axils of the leaves; female flowers 1-several in fascicles in the axils of the leaves.

1/4 inch red drupes in clusters mature in fall and persist into winter., Drupes red, spherical, shiny, up to 1/4 inch in diameter, containing 4 nutlets.