§1 Plant
Ilex montana Torr. & A. Gray ex A. Gray
vernacular mountain holly — species · Aquifoliaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Aquifoliaceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Ilex
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 241 counties across 11 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 241 counties across 11 states/territories.
Georgia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 8 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 4 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 15 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 43 N ▾
- Alexander 37003
- Alleghany 37005
- Ashe 37009
- Avery 37011
- Buncombe 37021
- Burke 37023
- Caldwell 37027
- Catawba 37035
- Cherokee 37039
- Clay 37043
- Cumberland 37051
- Davidson 37057
- Durham 37063
- Edgecombe 37065
- Forsyth 37067
- Graham 37075
- Granville 37077
- Greene 37079
- Guilford 37081
- Haywood 37087
- Iredell 37097
- Jackson 37099
- Lee 37105
- Lenoir 37107
- Macon 37113
- Madison 37115
- Martin 37117
- McDowell 37111
- Mitchell 37121
- Northampton 37131
- Orange 37135
- Pitt 37147
- Polk 37149
- Randolph 37151
- Rockingham 37157
- Stokes 37169
- Surry 37171
- Swain 37173
- Transylvania 37175
- Wake 37183
- Watauga 37189
- Wayne 37191
- Wilkes 37193
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 52 N ▾
- Adams 42001
- Allegheny 42003
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bradford 42015
- Butler 42019
- Cambria 42021
- Cameron 42023
- Carbon 42025
- Centre 42027
- Clarion 42031
- Clearfield 42033
- Clinton 42035
- Columbia 42037
- Crawford 42039
- Elk 42047
- Fayette 42051
- Forest 42053
- Franklin 42055
- Fulton 42057
- Greene 42059
- Huntingdon 42061
- Indiana 42063
- Jefferson 42065
- Juniata 42067
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lawrence 42073
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Lycoming 42081
- McKean 42083
- Mercer 42085
- Mifflin 42087
- Monroe 42089
- Northampton 42095
- Northumberland 42097
- Pike 42103
- Potter 42105
- Schuylkill 42107
- Snyder 42109
- Somerset 42111
- Sullivan 42113
- Susquehanna 42115
- Tioga 42117
- Union 42119
- Venango 42121
- Warren 42123
- Wayne 42127
- Westmoreland 42129
- Wyoming 42131
South Carolina view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 30 N ▾
- Anderson 47001
- Blount 47009
- Campbell 47013
- Carter 47019
- Cocke 47029
- Cumberland 47035
- Fentress 47049
- Franklin 47051
- Grainger 47057
- Greene 47059
- Grundy 47061
- Hardin 47071
- Hawkins 47073
- Haywood 47075
- Johnson 47091
- Knox 47093
- Madison 47113
- Monroe 47123
- Morgan 47129
- Overton 47133
- Polk 47139
- Rhea 47143
- Sequatchie 47153
- Sevier 47155
- Sullivan 47163
- Unicoi 47171
- Union 47173
- Van Buren 47175
- Warren 47177
- Washington 47179
Virginia view state ↗ 46 N ▾
- Albemarle 51003
- Alleghany 51005
- Amherst 51009
- Appomattox 51011
- Augusta 51015
- Bath 51017
- Bedford 51019
- Bland 51021
- Botetourt 51023
- Buchanan 51027
- Buckingham 51029
- Carroll 51035
- Craig 51045
- Dickenson 51051
- Fauquier 51061
- Floyd 51063
- Franklin 51067
- Frederick 51069
- Giles 51071
- Grayson 51077
- Greene 51079
- Henry 51089
- Highland 51091
- Lee 51105
- Louisa 51109
- Madison 51113
- Montgomery 51121
- Nelson 51125
- Northampton 51131
- Page 51139
- Patrick 51141
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Rappahannock 51157
- Roanoke 51161
- Rockbridge 51163
- Rockingham 51165
- Russell 51167
- Scott 51169
- Shenandoah 51171
- Smyth 51173
- Surry 51181
- Tazewell 51185
- Warren 51187
- Washington 51191
- Wise 51195
- Wythe 51197
West Virginia view state ↗ 19 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ILMO ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5414241 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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