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American holly
Ilex opaca
39.0539, -76.6421
Field Notes
Description:
dark green, tough, and leathery. Sometimes they are very shiny. Sometimes they are yellowish-green. leaves have several "prickles" on the edges.
Habitat:
the maritime forests of Massachusetts, scattered along the coast to Delaware. It grows inland into several Pennsylvania counties and southward throughout the coastal plain, Piedmont, and Appalachian system. It extends to south mid-peninsular Florida, west to eastern Texas and southeastern Missouri. corresponds roughly to the combined ranges for loblolly and shortleaf pines.
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