Ilex verticillata
winterberry


Genus name comes from the Latin name Quercus ilex for holm oak in reference to the foliage similarities (holm oak and many of the shrubs in the genus Ilex have evergreen leaves).

Specific epithet from Latin means whorled in reference to the arrangement of sessile fruits in pseudo-whorls around the stems.
Dolba hyloeus
pawpaw sphinx moth

Turdus migratorius
American robin

Bombycilla cedrorum
cedar waxwing

Sialia sialis
bluebird