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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hypericum frondosum
FAMILY
Hypericaceae
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Read more about Golden St. Johnswort at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hypericum frondosum
FAMILY
Clusiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Hypericum frondosum
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hypericum aureum
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hypericum splendens
COMMON NAME:
Golden St. Johnswort, Cedar Glade St. Johnswort
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_hyau_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm0404e_33
April Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
Cone-shaped capsules about 0.6" long have numerous small black seeds, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm110416_897
April Etowah County AL
Leaves opposite, 1.2"-2.5" long and 0.4"-0.6" wide, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm110417_995
April Cleburne County AL
Mount Cheaha
Bark papery, the smooth portion shiny brown or metallic gray, per Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004).
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JK Marlow jkm0407j_13
July Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
1-3 showy flowers with broad green bracts at the ends of branches, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_hypericum_frondosum_4
July
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hypericum frondosum
FAMILY
Hypericaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hypericum frondosum
FAMILY
Clusiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Hypericum frondosum
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hypericum aureum
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hypericum splendens
721
Shrub
Perennial
Habitat: rock outcrops and rocky woodlands; also in dry disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Native to Georgia
Rare in GA (waifs in the Carolinas)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Shrubby with broader leaves (mostly lanceolate or oblanceolate); flowers with 5 petals and 5 sepals
Opposite
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Yellow
Radially symmetrical
5 persistent sepals
5 petals
Superior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer?
Reddish-brown
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p096
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p247
- How to Recognize Shrubs (Grimm, 1966) p195
- Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast (Foote & Jones, 1989) p097
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p063
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p086
- Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004) p168
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