NameThatPlant.net: Hypericum apocynifolium

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (4/24/22):
Hypericum apocynifolium FAMILY Hypericaceae NEW! Click to 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.

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (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

Native to Georgia

Rare

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

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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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