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Read more about Creeping St. Andrew's Cross at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Malpighiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Hypericum stragulum
FAMILY
Hypericaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hypericum hypericoides ssp. multicaule
FAMILY
Clusiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISSPELLED)
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 126-01-003:
Hypericum stragalum
FAMILY
Hypericaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Ascyrum hypericoides var. multicaule
COMMON NAME:
Creeping St. Andrew's Cross, Low St. Johnswort, Straggling St. Johnswort
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JK Marlow jkm090425_090
April Pickens County SC
Nine Times Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm120623_154
June Greenville County SC
Ashmore Heritage Preserve
Similar to H. hypericoides, but having decumbent stems forming low mats, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm100730_298b
July Jackson County NC
Balsam Mountain Preserve
Two outer sepals, ovate or widely elliptic; inner sepals usually obsolete, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm190722_0098
July Greenville County SC
Several prostrate stems, each with numerous erect branchlets, per Weakley's Flora (2018).
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JK Marlow jkm190722_0099
July Greenville County SC
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July Greenville County SC
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July Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm190726_0229
July Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
Leaves usually relatively uniform in size and shape, widest above the middle, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_hypericum_stragulum_3
July
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JK Marlow jkm120825_989
August Greenville County SC
Jones Gap State Park