Ilex coriacea (Pursh) Chapm.

Shrub to 5 m; twigs glabrous or viscid-puberulent; lvs coriaceous, evergreen, oblanceolate, 3.5–8 cm, acute or obtuse, minutely mucronate, tapering to the base, puberulent along the midvein above, otherwise glabrous, entire or with a few low salient teeth usually in the upper third of the blade; fls mostly 6–8-merous, the staminate numerous in dense fascicles, the pistillate few or solitary; fr black, soft, deciduous at maturity; nutlets smooth on the back. Wet woods; se. Va. to Fla. and La. May, June. (I. lucida, misapplied)

Often a dominant understorey species is pine savannahs, low wet areas such as swamps, bays, river floodplains, and by the sides of streams and ponds. Sandy woods and swamps.

Caution:

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.