Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Aquifoliales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Ilex curtissii
FAMILY
Aquifoliaceae
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INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ilex decidua
FAMILY
Aquifoliaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Ilex decidua
SYNONYMOUS WITH Systematic study of Ilex ambigua, Ilex decidua and related taxa (Krakow, 1989)
Ilex decidua var. curtissii
INCLUDED WITHIN Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Ilex decidua
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Ilex curtissii
COMMON NAME:
Suwanee Possumhaw, Curtiss's Holly
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_ilde_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_ilde_006_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Ilex curtissii
FAMILY
Aquifoliaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ilex decidua
FAMILY
Aquifoliaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Ilex decidua
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Systematic study of Ilex ambigua, Ilex decidua and related taxa (Krakow, 1989)
Ilex decidua var. curtissii
INCLUDED WITHIN
Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Ilex decidua
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Ilex curtissii
4952
Shrub; Tree
Perennial
Usually dioecious
Habitat: floodplains and moist forests in the Suwanee River drainage, per Weakley's Flora
Native to Georgia
Rare
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LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Alternate
Margins crenate
FLOWER:
Spring
5-merous (4-merous?)
Usually unisexual
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
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