Inkberry
Ilex glabra
White flowers from May into June, worked by mining bees and cellophane bees. It grows wild in 18 of Mississippi’s 82 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
- 49 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
Witherod Viburnum
Northern Highbush Blueberry
Possumhaw Viburnum
Sweet Joe-pye-weed
Hollow Joe-pye-weed
Cutleaf Coneflower
Swamp AzaleaFacts from the Quercus record for Ilex glabra.