Hypericum galioides

Hypericum galioides, the bedstraw St. Johnswort,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the St. John's wort family, Hypericaceae.[3][4] It is endemic to the Southeastern United States.

Hypericum galioides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Hypericaceae
Genus: Hypericum
Section: H. sect. Myriandra
Subsection: H. subsect. Centrosperma
Species:
H. galioides
Binomial name
Hypericum galioides

Description

It is a slender, branching shrublet up to 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) tall with linear to oblanceolate leaves.[3] The sessile leaves are 15–37 cm (5.9–14.6 in) long and 1–7 mm (0.039–0.276 in) across with mostly acute tips.[3][5] The flowers are small, in terminal and axillary cymes, with very narrow sepals. Each flower is 9–14 mm (0.35–0.55 in) in diameter with 5 bright yellow petals and 60–120 stamens.[3] It flowers in the summer, between June and August.[6] The 3-parted fruits are 4.5–6 mm (0.18–0.24 in) long and ovoid.[3][6]

Distribution and habitat

Hypericum galioides occurs in wet to moist habitats in the coastal plain of the southeastern United States. It has been recorded from North Carolina south to northern Florida and west to the eastern parts of Texas, but excluding most of the Mississippi delta.[3][2] Habitat types include streambanks, swamps, river bottoms, floodplains, lake edges, wet pine forests, and ditches.[3]

References
  1. "Hypericum galioides Lam". ipni.org. International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
  2. "Hypericum galioides". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
  3. "Hypericum galioides Lam. Descriptions". hypericum.myspecies.info. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
  4. "Hypericum galioides". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanical Gardens Kew. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
  5. Gray, Asa (1908) [1847]. Benjamin Lincoln Robinson and Merritt Lyndon Fernald (ed.). Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Central and Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada (Seventh ed.). New York: American Book Company. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
  6. Robson, Norman K. B. (2015). "Hypericum galioides". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). 6. New York and Oxford. Retrieved 2018-11-03 – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
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