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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Hypericum gentianoides
FAMILY
Hypericaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Pineweed at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hypericum gentianoides
FAMILY
Clusiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 126-01-018:
Hypericum gentianoides
FAMILY
Hypericaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Sarothra gentianoides
COMMON NAME:
Pineweed, Orange-grass
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_hyge_004_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_sage6_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm190518_8424
May Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm0507j_36
July Greenville County SC
Wildcat Falls Wayside Park
Leaves scale-like, to 0.1" long, appressed to the stem, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm0507k_17
July Greenville County SC
Wildcat Falls Wayside Park
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JK Marlow jkm060730_008
July Pickens County SC
Grows in thick patches in bare ground. — Patrick McMillan
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JK Marlow jkm120804_153
August Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
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Roxanna Martin rlm82210_78
August Spartanburg County SC
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Roxanna Martin rlm82210_83
August Spartanburg County SC
Flowers yellow, terminal, 0.25" wide, with "propeller-twisted" petals. — Patrick McMillan
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JK Marlow jkm0509d_24
September Greenville County SC
Field
Fruit: Slender, dark red, cone-shaped capsules, about 0.25" long, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm0509d_30
September Greenville County SC
Field
The bruised stems have a citrus fragrance, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC.
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Roxanna Martin rlm9509_006
September Spartanburg County SC
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JK Marlow s050910_c
September Greenville County SC
Field
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Hypericum gentianoides
FAMILY
Hypericaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hypericum gentianoides
FAMILY
Clusiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 126-01-018:
Hypericum gentianoides
FAMILY
Hypericaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Sarothra gentianoides
722
Forb
Annual
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common
Look for it in fields, on rock outcrops, woodland borders, eroding areas, pond margins, flatwoods, 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:
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!
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses p102
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p173
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p172
- Guide to the Plants of Granite Outcrops p62
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p268
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p051
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p064
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p087
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont p399
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p099
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p329