Winterberry, Sparkleberry
Used to decorate many a home in winter, these are perhaps the most popular of all ornamental berry plants. Their showy berries often last for several months and attract birds.
Ilex verticillata (Black alder, Winterberry)
Ilex verticillata 'Afterglow' Photo/Illustration: Michelle Gervais
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Winterberry Holly
Ilex verticillata 'Red Sprite' and 'Jim Dandy'
'Red Sprite' is a 3-4' tall deciduous shrub that is ideal for a smaller landscape.
Winterberry (Ilex verticillata)
Zone 4, 2 m high x 2 m
Deciduous, native holly with scarlet autumn foliage; bright red winter berries.
Winterberry (Ilex verticillata): Winterberry is a deciduous shrub, which unlike most hollies thrives in boggy soils. Plants grow 6 to 10 feet tall and female plants bear enormous crops of bright red berries that last all winter.
Winterberry variety 'Winter Red' has an attractive rounded form that is compact and produces large crops of showy berries.
Usage
Common winterberry is a great shrub for wet areas in the landscape.
Winterberry (Ilex verticillata)
Winterhazel, fragrant (Corylopsis glabrescens)
Witchhazel (Hamamelis) ...
American Winterberry - Ilex verticillata
Evergreen Winterberry - Ilex glabra
Virginia Winterberry - Ilex verticillata
Wintercress - Barbarea vulgaris ...
Ilex verticillata : Winterberry - Fruits
Ilex verticillata 'Afterglow' : Afterglow Winterberry - Fruits
Ilex verticillata 'Winter Red' : Winter Red Winterberry - Fruits ...
Winterberry Ilex verticillata
Honeylocust
Honeylocust Gleditsia triacanthos
Thornless Gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis
Sunburst Thornless Gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis ‘Sunburst'
Honeysuckle
Box Lonicera nitida ...
Ilex glabra: inkberry, winterberry - This evergreen has tiny black berries and 1-2 inch leaves that are wide at the tip and nearly spineless. It grows to 8 ft. in a dense, upright habit.
Other common names include inkberry, winterberry, and yaupon.
About This Plant
Most hollies have glossy, prickly foliage. The plants are dioecious, meaning there are both male and female plants.
Shrubs: Speckled Alder (Alnus incana), Leatherleaf (Chamaedaphne calyculata), Pipsisewa (Chimaphila umbellata), Bunchberry (Cornus canadensis), Trailing Arbutus (Epigaea repens), Creeping Snowberry (Gaultheria hispidula), Winterberry Holly (Ilex ...
COMMON: Winterberry Holly
LEAVES: Deciduous, alternate, simple, 1.5" to 3" long, one third as wide, dark green on top, pubescent on the underside
SIZE: 5 to 10 feet
HARDINESS: Zone 3 to 9
HABIT: Dense, oval to rounded ...
Stop 27 (WH) - Winterberry Holly
Stop 28 (PB) - Paper Birch
Stop 29 (SF) - Sawara Falsecypress
Stop 30 (FEO) - Fastigiate English Oak
Stop 31 (SWO) - Swamp White Oak
Stop 32 (RP) - Red Pine
Stop 33 (WE) - Winterberry Euonymus ...
Black Alder Winterberry. Deciduous Winterberry. Virginian Winterberry. P. Gronovii. P. Confertus. Fever Bush. Apalachine a feuilles de Prunier.
---Parts Used---The fresh bark and fruit.
Ilex verticillata, the winterberry, does well in poorly-drained, wet and acidic soils; hardy in zones 3-9. Ilex crenata, or Japanese holly, is very useful as a bonsai species, indoors and out, as it is very shade-tolerant; zone 6-9 ...
Tall Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia maxima) seeds are highly attractive to goldfinches in the fall. Winterberry (Ilex verticillata) is a crucial shrub for providing a late-winter food source for birds. New Canaan Nature ...
yaupon and winterberry, or feverbush, both of E North America. Wild or mountain holly (Nemopanthus mucronata) is a deciduous shrub of E North America. Many species of this family are cultivated as ornamentals.
 See also: Green, Holly, Ilex, Ilex verticillata, Evergreen
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