3414

Shrub
Perennial

Native to Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA - -

Rare

Look for it on 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

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses p276?
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p063
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p086
• Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide p168

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Hypericum apocynifolium   FAMILY Hypericaceae

LESS THAN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hypericum nudiflorum   FAMILY Clusiaceae

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