DIVERSITY OF LIFE TOMPKINS COUNTY FLORA
Ilex verticillata(L.) A. Gray
Mitchell NYNYFA TCUSDA NY
accepted accepted accepted
Winterberry, Common Winterberry

Aquifoliaceae

CAYUGA FLORA (1926) NOTES: Swampy woods and thickets, in acid soils ; frequent. July. Summit Marsh ; swamp n. of Enfield Falls ; South Hill Marsh ; Indian Spring marsh (D.!); Ringwood; Malloryville ; McLean Bogs; Lake Como; Junius bogs; Montezuma Marshes ; Duck Lake ; Stark Pond ; and elsewhere. Especially frequent about peat bogs. Newf. to Wis., southw. to Fla. and Mo. : common on the Coastal Plain. Variable as to shape and texture of leaf, degree of pubescence, and color and size of twigs. The var. tenuifolia of Grays Man., ed. 7 (I. bronxensis Britton), seems to be at most a shade form.


BH SPECIMENS FOR Ilex verticillata (this list may be incomplete)
 McLean, 1 Mar 1933, Ellis 767 (BH 52162);
 Ithaca, Renwick, 23 Oct 1933, Ellis 753 (BH 52163);
 Ithaca, Cornell University campus, Winter Garden Cornell Plantations, woody shrub, bright golden-orange berries, 14 Oct 2010, Seccurra 4 (BH 59565);
 Ithaca, Cornell University campus, cultivated in Cornell Plantations Winter Garden, woody shrub 2 meters tall, bright red berries, 14 Oct 2010, Seccurra 3 (BH 46758);
 Ithaca, Cornell University Campus, in Winter Garden Cornell Plantations, woody shrub, 2m tall, bright red berries, 14 Oct 2010, Seccurra 3 (BH 43428);
 Ithaca, Cornell University campus, in Winter Garden Cornell Plantations, woody shrub, bright golden-orange berries, 14 Oct 2010, Seccurra 4 (BH 43427);
 Ithaca, swamp, brilliant scarlet, 29 Oct 1922, Bailey (BH 12853);
 Dryden, Round Marshes (Gracie's Swamp), 13 Sep 1917, Bechtel & Wiegand 8424 (BH 12845);
 Ithaca, Renwick, near bayou, woods, 11 Oct 1934, Clausen 1516 (BH 12838);
 Dryden, headwaters of Six Mile Creek, wet field, shrub 5 feet high, fruit bright red, 2 Oct 1947, Dress 128 (BH 12852);
 Ithaca, swamp, 24 Oct 1881, Dudley (BH 12839);
 Ithaca, Renwick, ridge of bayou, 27 Aug 1919, Eames 12411 (BH 12843);
 Dryden, 1.5 miles north of Slaterville, low woods, 20 Jul 1919, Eames & Randolph 12412 (BH 12844);
 Ithaca, South Hill, in marsh, 28 Jun 1915, Eames & Thomas 4510 (BH 12841);
 Dryden, Freeville Bog, 29 Jun 1919, Eames & Wiegand 12409 (BH 12849);
 Enfield, northwest of Enfield Falls, ridge of swampy woodland, 11 Jul 1917, Gershoy 8423 (BH 12840);
 Dryden, Ringwood, in high bush Vaccinium bog, 29 Jun 1918, Gershoy 10245 (BH 12847);
 Dryden, Ringwood, 23 Aug 1917, Jones 8422 (BH 12848);
 Ithaca, Fall Creek, swamp woodland, 4 Jul 1920, Muenscher & Bechtel 263 (BH 12837);
 Dryden Bog, near shrubby edge, 7 Sep 1954, Slack (BH 299956);
 South of Dryden, Dryden Bog, 7 Sep 1954, Slack (BH 299952);
 Dryden, Round Marshes (Gracie's Swamp), thickets around bogs, 3 Sep 1915, Thomas 4511 (BH 12842);
 Ithaca and Dryden, Townline Road, 2.5 miles norhtwest of Varna, low ground, 28 Jun 1936, Wiegand 19432 (BH 12851);
 Dryden, Freeville Bog, 15 Jun 1919, Wiegand & Randolph 12413 (BH 12846);

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