Ilex deciduaWalter

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WFO wfo-0001078525 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Ilex decidua, photographed by Ryan Sorrells
fig. a Ryan Sorrells, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-26 / obs. 191165327
Ilex decidua, photographed by Rich Sommer
fig. b Rich Sommer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195749655
Ilex decidua, photographed by stephen
fig. c stephen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188660843
Ilex decidua, photographed by Ryan Watson
fig. d Ryan Watson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186938311
Ilex decidua, photographed by Alan Weakley
fig. e Alan Weakley, CC0 1.0 / obs. 186105077
Ilex decidua, photographed by saltyhiker
fig. f saltyhiker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182391965
Ilex decidua, photographed by Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）
fig. g Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183368096
Ilex decidua, photographed by jeanetx
fig. h jeanetx, CC0 1.0 / obs. 181681535

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Flowering n = 183 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 183 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Ageria retusa Raf.
  • Ilex aestivalis Lam.
  • Ilex decidua var. decidua
  • Ilex decidua var. mulleri Edwin ex T.R.Dudley
  • Ilex decidua var. urbana Alph.Wood
  • Ilex prionites Willd.
  • Ilex tenuifolia Salisb.
  • Prinos deciduus DC.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.