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Harvard University, Gray Herbarium (GH)
PLANTS OF NEW JERSEY
Ilex opaca Ait.
AQUIFOLIACEAE
Tree 20ft tall, trunk diameter 5in, common. Growing in
a shady, old-growth swamp forest in wet, peaty soil
(Manahawkin muck, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently
flooded; sandy or sandy-skeletal, siliceous, dysic, mesic
Terric Haplosaprists), with Acer rubrum, Clethra
alnifolia, Fagus grandifolia, Liquidambar styraciflua,
Magnolia virginiana, Nyssa sylvatica, Smilax
rotundifolia (?), Sphagnum macrophyllum, &
Sphagnum spp. In the middle of Bear Swamp, around
0.6mi S of a railroad, & around 1.6mi ESE of Frames
Comer. Downe Township, Cumberland Co. Elev.
about 10ft. 39° 17' 55.3"N, 75° 08' 06.0"W; UTM 18S
488360E, 4349932N (NAD83/WGS84).
Coll. Doug Goldman #4054
With Gerry Moore & Renee Brecht
8 February 2009
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