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

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...Wet

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 Tennessee p063
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p086
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p098

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Malpighiales

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 (1968) 126-01-025a:
Hypericum denticulatum var. denticulatum   FAMILY Hypericaceae