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Winterberry Holly or
Common Winterberry

Ilex verticillata

Holly Family - Aquifoliaceae

Flowers, which may be bisexual or unisexual, composed of 4 or 5 greenish-white to white petals. Leaf veins alternate and tend to end in a network near the margin rather then extend to the edge. Fruit a round, red, berry-like drupe.

(Photographed - early July and early September)

Generally erect shrubs (9 to 12' tall) bearing many clusters of 1 to 3 small, short stalked flowers at the base of oval, finely toothed, sharp-pointed, rather thick, alternating leaves.