Field Guide / Native Plant
Native Plant
Possumhaw Holly
Ilex decidua
Possumhaw holly saves its best work for winter, which takes a certain confidence: it drops its leaves and lights the bare branches with red berries, feeding the birds in the lean weeks when nothing else will. Only the female plant puts on the show — the males, as ever, are along for support. ❤️
Water
Low–med
Sun
Full · part
Berries
Winter
Wildlife
Birds
Drops its leaves to reveal branches packed with red berries all winter — a living sculpture for the months the yard goes bare and you'd otherwise have nothing to look at but your own poor decisions.
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