Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Malpighiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Hypericum apocynifolium
FAMILY
Hypericaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hypericum nudiflorum
FAMILY
Clusiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hypericum apocynifolium
COMMON NAME:
early St. Johnswort
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JK Marlow jkm100313_145
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 (11/30/12):
Hypericum apocynifolium
FAMILY
Hypericaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hypericum nudiflorum
FAMILY
Clusiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hypericum apocynifolium
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
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:
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