Ilex glabra(L.) A.Gray

inkberry

WFO wfo-0001078435 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ilex glabra, photographed by Darren Oh
fig. a Darren Oh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-06-04 / obs. 203384815
Ilex glabra, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. b Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198449429
Ilex glabra, photographed by Leila Dasher
fig. c Leila Dasher, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197014996
Ilex glabra, photographed by Ashwin Srinivasan
fig. d Ashwin Srinivasan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190337078
Ilex glabra, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. e Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190519915
Ilex glabra, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. f Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190520525
Ilex glabra, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. g Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190519722
Ilex glabra, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. h Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190519893

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Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Ilex glabra is native: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Nova Scotia, Pennsylvania, Rhode I., South Carolina, Texas, Virginia AlabamaArkansasConnecticutFloridaGeorgiaLouisianaMaineMarylandMassachusettsMississippiNew HampshireNew JerseyNew YorkNorth CarolinaNova ScotiaPennsylvaniaSouth CarolinaTexasVirginia DelawareRhode I.
Native distribution of Ilex glabra, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Arkansas ARK
Connecticut CNT
Delaware DEL
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Louisiana LOU
Maine MAI
Maryland MRY
Massachusetts MAS
Mississippi MSI
New Hampshire NWH
New Jersey NWJ
New York NWY
North Carolina NCA
Nova Scotia NSC
Pennsylvania PEN
Rhode I. RHO
South Carolina SCA
Texas TEX
Virginia VRG

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 261 in flower of 1,220 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Ilex glabra observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 261 of 1,220 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 5 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.

  • Ennepta myricoides Raf.
  • Ilex glabra var. austrina Ashe
  • Prinos glaber L.
  • Winterlia glabra (L.) K.Koch
  • Winterlia triflora Moench

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.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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