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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Hypericum denticulatum
FAMILY
Hypericaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Coppery St. Johnswort at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hypericum denticulatum
FAMILY
Clusiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 126-01-025a:
Hypericum denticulatum var. denticulatum
FAMILY
Hypericaceae
COMMON NAME:
Coppery St. Johnswort
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May Williamsburg County SC
Leaves elliptic to nearly round, often erect or ascending, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Hypericum denticulatum
FAMILY
Hypericaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hypericum denticulatum
FAMILY
Clusiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 126-01-025a:
Hypericum denticulatum var. denticulatum
FAMILY
Hypericaceae
1945
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common in NC-SC Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in our area)
Look for it in savannas, wet pine flatwoods, adjacent ditches, borrow scrapes, blackwater stream shores, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Yellow
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
5 persistent sepals
5 petals
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p268
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p252
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p063
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p086
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p098