St. Peter's-wort (MatBio: TREES & SHRUBS - Matanzas Biodiversity)

St. Peter's-wort

Hypericum crux-andreae

Summary ⁴

Hypericum crux-andreae, commonly called St. Peter's-wort, is a species of flowering plant in the Hypericaceae (St. John's wort) family. It is a small shrub native to Eastern North America. It is primarily found in the sandy soils of the Coastal Plain with extensions into the Piedmont and Cumberland Plateau. It is found in wet flatwoods, and generally in wet, open, sandy areas such as bogs or seeps, although it is occasionally found in drier habitats.

General description ⁵

Hypericum crux-andreae (L.) Crantz

Distribution

Wet pine flatwoods (WPF-T), wet pine savannas (SPS-RF, WLPS, VWLPS).

Notes

Occasional. Jun–Oct . Thornhill 700, 746 (NCSC). Specimens seen in the vicinity: Sandy Run [Hancock]: Taggart SARU 308 (WNC!). [= Hypericum stans (Michx. ex Willd.) W.P. Adams & N. Robson sensu RAB; = Weakley]

Sources and Credits

(c) Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/services/media.php?env=botany&irn=10286897
<a href="http://www.wli.nrcs.usda.gov">NRCS National Wetland Team, Fort Worth, TX</a>., no known copyright restrictions (public domain), https://plants.usda.gov/gallery/large/hycr3_002_lvd.jpg
USDA NRCS PLANTS Database, no known copyright restrictions (public domain), https://plants.usda.gov/gallery/large/asst2_001_lvd.jpg
(c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypericum_crux-andreae
(c) Unknown, some rights reserved (<license>Public Domain</license>), http://eol.org/data_objects/31443891

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