Yaupon

The grizzled leader hunched like a porcupine and peered through a screen of yaupon leaves, the crossbow held low before him. ❋ W. Michael Gear (2011)

We plant, use feeders and even create deer trails through the thick yaupon bushes. without creating trails the brush can be so thick a rabbit couldn't get through it much less a deer. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Ronnie's boss had sent him over to clear out some of the thick yaupon and gall berry bushes around the house to give our longleaf pines a fighting chance. ❋ Elizabeth Westmark (2011)

A thick understory of yaupon and eastern redcedar occurs in some parts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The maritime forests include live oak, laurel oak, loblolly pine, red cedar, yaupon holly, wax myrtle, dwarf palmetto, with cabbage palm (Sabal palmetto) in the south. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Other plants found commonly within the reserve include Spanish moss, resurrection fern, prickly pear, saw palmetto, sabal palmetto, yaupon holly, red cedar, smilax and sweet grass. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The house went up like a parcel of brittle old love letters, the flames growing hotter and redder, red as yaupon berries, red as lung blood. ❋ Diane Roberts (2008)

Onto this green emptiness houses as awe-inspiring as the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus would appear in groves of oak and yaupon. ❋ Diane Roberts (2008)

His name in Hitchiti was As-se-se-he-ho-lar or Asiyahola, which is what the Seminoles called the Black Drink, the sacramental tea brewed out of holly and yaupon leaves. ❋ Diane Roberts (2008)

We were only there three years so my own garden was still young, although we were loaded with pine trees and yaupon hollies. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Flora associated with the habitats within the ACE Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve include live oak, slash pine, southern magnolia, red bay and cabbage palmetto, with sub canopy of southern red cedar and shrub layer of wax myrtle and yaupon holly. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Shrub thicket and maritime forest consisting of live oak, loblolly pine, wax myrtle, yaupon and red cedar occur where salt spray and sea water flooding do not prohibit woody plant growth. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Slightly higher sandy areas are covered by shrub thicket characterized by wax myrtle, silverling, red cedar, yaupon and Hercules 'club. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A small area of maritime forest and shrub thicket on the east end of Carrot Island is dominated by live oak, loblolly pine, red cedar, yaupon and wax myrtle. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Unfortunately, in a fit of "landscaping" a few years ago I deemed the existing bushes-big-enough-to-hide-behind to be hideous and I replaced them with petite and maintenance-free dwarf yaupon hollies. ❋ Lisa B. (2006)

Ahead were two shacks shaded by an enormous yaupon holly. ❋ Reichs, Kathy (2006)

I stretched out my hand and dragged it through a yaupon bush; the long, curly hairs drifted on the breeze of the horse's passing, but stayed safely tangled in the jagged foliage. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (2005)