This cultivar of Yaupon Holly, fully embraced by the nursery trade like few other native plants, is very popular as a foundation plant around homes and office buildings and it functions admirably in this role.’Schiling’s Dwarf’ is included in our inventory specifically for those who want a formal hedge, but with native plants. It is a slowly growing, compact, male cultivar of the wild type Yaupon Holly, but only 4-7 feet high (if allowed to grow) by 6-10 feet wide, with a rounded form, and small, alternate leaves of glossy green. It is extremely versatile due to its tolerance of soils from wet to dry and light regimes from full sun to light shade. It tends to grow slowly, laterally more than vertically, so it lends itself to hedging. Spaced 2.5 to 3 feet apart, and at least 3 feet from the house or sidewalk, ‘Schilling’s Dwarf’ Yaupon can be kept 2.5 to 3 feet tall for many years with minimal trimming. Generally free of pests and diseases, and bearing no fruit, it is not the most exciting of our offerings, but it definitely has a role to play, if only as a backdrop for the complexity of a naturalistic planting, or as a male pollen donor for female I. vomitoria Hollies such as ‘Taylor’s Rudolph’. Since selections do not have a natural plant distribution, the USDA distribution map linked below is for the species.
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Ilex vomitoria ‘Schilling’s Dwarf’
Key Info
Scientific Name: Ilex vomitoria cv. 'Schilling's Dwarf'
Common Names: 'Schilling's Dwarf' Yaupon, 'Schilling's Dwarf' Holly, 'Schelling's Dwarf' Yaupon, synonymous with 'Stokes Dwarf' Yaupon
Family Names: Aquifoliaceae (Holly Family)
Plant Type: Tree / Shrub
Leaf Retention: Evergreen
Flower Color: White
Special Characteristics: Salt tolerant, Tolerates temporary wet conditions, Reported to be deer resistant., Attracts bees, Evergreen, Attracts butterflies, Drought tolerant, Slow growing, Good for hedging
Additional Info
Habit: Compact, dense, rounded form grows more horizontally then vertically.
Height: 4-7'
Spread: 6-10'
Soil Conditions: A broad range of conditions: moist to dry; acid to slightly alkaline, sand, loam, clay.
Leaves: Small (1.5 inches x 34 inch wide), simple, alternate, glossy, ovate to elliptical dark green above and lighter below, with crenate or coarsely serrated margins, rounded base and prominent, pinnate venation.
Flowers (or reproductive structures: Small, white, fragrant, inconspicuous 4-parted flowers in spring: male flowers in axillary clusters of 4 on this male cultivar.
Fruit: Male cultivar has no fruit
Natural Distribution: cultivar of Ilex vomitoria
USDA Hardiness Zone: 7 to 9
USDA Wetland Indicator Status in NC: FAC
Pollination: n/a
Wildlife Connections: Dense texture provides cover and habitat for songbirds. The species is a larval host for Henry's Elfin Butterfly, and the cultivar probably is also.
Propagation: From hardwood cuttings.