Prunus ilicifolia(Nutt. ex Hook. & Arn.) D.Dietr.

hollyleaf cherry

WFO wfo-0001013868 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Prunus ilicifolia, photographed by Daniel Williford
fig. a Daniel Williford, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-15 / obs. 197998751
Prunus ilicifolia, photographed by James C. Davis
fig. b James C. Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 203038328
Prunus ilicifolia, photographed by joergmlpts
fig. c joergmlpts, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204726780
Prunus ilicifolia, photographed by Leah Gardner
fig. d Leah Gardner, CC0 1.0 / obs. 198728334
Prunus ilicifolia, photographed by Millie Basden
fig. e Millie Basden, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191420675
Prunus ilicifolia, photographed by Amthinkia
fig. f Amthinkia, CC0 1.0 / obs. 189479518
Prunus ilicifolia, photographed by George Williams
fig. g George Williams, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188932613
Prunus ilicifolia, photographed by Chuck Wilson
fig. h Chuck Wilson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 189793882

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Flowering n = 587 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 587 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 11 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.

  • Cerasus ilicifolia Nutt. ex Hook. & Arn.
  • Cerasus lyonii Eastw.
  • Lauro-cerasus ilicifolia (Nutt. ex Hook. & Arn.) M.Roem.
  • Lauro-cerasus lyonii (Eastw.) Britton
  • Laurocerasus ilicifolia (Nutt. ex Hook. & Arn.) M.Roem.
  • Prunus ilicifolia subsp. lyonii (Eastw.) P.H.Raven
  • Prunus ilicifolia subsp. occidentalis (Brandegee) A.E.Murray
  • Prunus ilicifolia var. integrifolia Sudw.
  • Prunus integrifolia Sarg.
  • Prunus lyonii (Eastw.) Sarg.
  • Prunus occidentalis W.S.Lyon

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.