Yaupon Holly
Ilex vomitoria
White flowers from March into May, worked by mining bees and cellophane bees. It grows wild in 10 of North Carolina’s 100 counties.
- Light
- Full shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 15.2 ft to 20.5 ft tall, 10 ft wide
- Flowers
- White, Mar to May
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Roots
- Woody roots; wants 20 in of soil
- Kind
- Tree, Shrub
Planted young
in flowerfruit or seed
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 52 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
Coral Honeysuckle
Flame Azalea
Allegheny Serviceberry
Northern Highbush Blueberry
Possumhaw Viburnum
Common Waxmyrtle
Pink Azalea
Narrowleaf SunflowerFacts from the Quercus record for Ilex vomitoria.