Inkberry
Ilex glabra
White flowers from May into June, worked by mining bees and cellophane bees. It grows wild in 25 of Alabama’s 67 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Moist soil
- Size
- 7.5 ft to 10 ft tall, 6.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- White, May to Jun
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Roots
- Woody roots; wants 16 in of soil
- Kind
- Shrub
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seed
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 50 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 35 kinds of native bees
- Birds
- 11 kinds of birds
- On its flowers
- Mining bee (Andrena robertsonii), Mining bee (Andrena spiraeana), Cellophane bee (Colletes banksi), Mining bee (Andrena vicina)
Grows well with
Narrowleaf Sunflower
Pink Azalea
Witherod Viburnum
Northern Highbush Blueberry
Possumhaw Viburnum
Sweet Joe-pye-weed
Hollow Joe-pye-weed
Swamp AzaleaFacts from the Quercus record for Ilex glabra.