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Your search found 17 taxa in the family Aquifoliaceae, Holly family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
American Holly, Christmas Holly
Look for it in a wide variety of forests, ranging from xeric to wetland
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Dahoon, Cassena, Dahoon Holly
Look for it in blackwater stream swamps, pocosins, nearly always in very acid peaty or sandy sites
Common (uncommon in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Myrtle Holly, Myrtle-leaved Holly
Look for it in limesink (doline) ponds, wet savannas
Common, endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Yaupon Holly, Yaupon
Look for it in maritime forests, other dry sandy forests. Also, it is increasingly popular as an ornamental shrub, and is persistent or establishing in suburban woodlands
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere, where probably introduced)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Possumhaw, Possumhaw Holly
Look for it in floodplain forests, less commonly on mesic (or even dry), upland slopes
Common (uncommon in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Georgia Holly, Chapman's Holly
Look for it in upland forests
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain) (rare in NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in peats of bogs and seepages, on banks of cold, high elevation streams (less commonly on moist, rocky slopes in northern hardwood forests or mixed spruce-hardwood forests) at moderate to high elevations (1100-1800m)
Rare (a Southern Appalachian endemic)
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Cuthbert Holly
Look for it in upland circumneutral woodlands and forests
Rare, endemic to an area along the Fall Line in SC & adjacent GA
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Look for it on banks of blackwater creeks and rivers, clay-based Carolina bays
Rare, endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Carolina Holly
Look for it in sandy upland forests, dry slope forests, rarely in pocosin ecotones in the fall-line sandhills region
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Mountain Holly, Mountain Winterberry
Look for it in mesic forests, rarely bogs or bog edges
Common in Mtns (uncommon or rare in Pdmt), essentially endemic to Appalachians
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Downy Winterberry, Black-alder
Look for it in bogs, pocosins, swampy forests
Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Smooth Winterberry
Look for it in pocosins, other wet, acidic sites, such as in small blackwater stream swamps
Common
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Inkberry, Bitter Gallberry, Little Gallberry
Look for it in savannas, pine flatwoods, pocosin margins, swamps, primarily in wetlands, but extending upslope even into sandhills, with a clay lens or spodic horizon below to maintain additional moisture
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Sweet Gallberry, Big Gallberry, Large Gallberry
Look for it pocosins. This is more restricted to wet, peaty sites than is Ilex glabra
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Pdmt), endemic to Southeastern Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Chinese Holly, Burford Holly
Look for it in forests in suburban areas, into which it has escaped from suburban plantings
Rare
Non-native: China
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Common Name:
Japanese Holly
Look for it in forests in suburban areas, into which it has escaped from landscaping
Rare
Non-native: Japan
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