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§1 Plant

Ilex opaca Aiton var. opaca

vernacular American holly — variety · Aquifoliaceae


USDA
ILOPO
GBIF
6420512
Rank
variety
American holly (Ilex opaca var. opaca)
Platephotograph · dogtooth77CC BY-NC-SA source · iNaturalist ↗

§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

· 621 counties across 21 states/territories
Legend Native · 621 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§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 621 counties across 21 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 57 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 46 N
Delaware view state ↗ 2 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Florida view state ↗ 1 N
Georgia view state ↗ 60 N
Illinois view state ↗ 1 N
Indiana view state ↗ 1 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 30 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 46 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 7 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 54 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 14 N
New York view state ↗ 9 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 83 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 16 N
Rhode Island view state ↗ 4 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 37 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 48 N
Virginia view state ↗ 81 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 23 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/ILOPO ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/6420512 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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