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When people see our winterberry hollies (Ilex verticillata), they’re immediately intrigued. It’s no wonder: these native shrubs are stunningly beautiful at the dreariest time of the year.
The common name refers to the plant’s red berries that mature in the fall, providing winter interest and food for birds and small mammals. Winterberry holly requires moist, acidic soil with good drainage in deep or partial shade, or full sun. It tolerates heat, drought, and soil compaction.
Winterberry (Ilex verticillata) is a native, woody shrub suited for use in rain gardens. Rain gardens are landscape features that help to protect downstream water quality by capturing stormwater runoff and allowing it to filter through the soil.
Adding color to the winter landscape, Ilex verticillata (Winterberry) is a slow-growing, multi-stemmed, deciduous shrub of upright-rounded habit. It produces an abundance of small, inconspicuous, greenish-white flowers in late spring or early summer.
Ecosystem benefits: Serves as a larval host for Henry’s Elfin butterfly and also attracts butterflies and bees. Bees are important pollinators of winterberry flowers. Wildlife also use this shrub for cover and nesting, and the berries serve as a food source for birds during the fall and winter 4.
Ilex verticillata, the winterberry, is a species of holly native to eastern North America in the United States and southeast Canada, from Newfoundland west to Ontario and Minnesota, and south to Alabama.
Ilex verticillata. winterberry. Large, suckering, deciduous shrub, growing about 2m tall, with bright green, oval to lance-shaped, toothed leaves, turning yellow in autumn.
