NameThatPlant.net: Hypericum apocynifolium

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hypericum apocynifolium FAMILY Hypericaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hypericum nudiflorum FAMILY Clusiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Hypericum apocynifolium

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Hypericum apocynifolium

COMMON NAME:
early St. Johnswort

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image of Hypericum apocynifolium, early St. Johnswort

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March Gadsden County FL

Angus Gholson Nature Park

A branching shrub to 7' tall with linear to narrowly elliptic leaves, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hypericum apocynifolium FAMILY Hypericaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hypericum nudiflorum FAMILY Clusiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Hypericum apocynifolium

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hypericum apocynifolium

3414

Shrub
Perennial

Habitat: Mesic bluffs and ravines, ridges and natural levees in floodplains, per Weakley's Flora

Native to Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Tardily deciduous
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Summer
Yellow
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
5 persistent sepals
5 petals
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer
Capsule

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