Large Gallberry
Ilex coriacea
Large gallberry, or sweet gallberry, is an evergreen wetland holly of the Southeast whose flowers yield prized gallberry honey and whose black fruit feeds birds. A suckering shrub for boggy, acidic ground.
- Family
- Aquifoliaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 6–12 ft
- Spacing
- 6–10 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- wet, moist
- Soil pH
- acidic
- Bloom
- April, May
- Bloom colors
- white, green
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, songbirds, larval host
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~39 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- specimen, hedge or screen, rain garden, erosion control
- Native states
- AL, FL, GA, LA, MS, NC, SC, TX, VA