Hypericum graveolens |
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mountain St. Johnswort |
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Habit | Herbs erect, with rooting, creeping base, 3–6.5 dm. |
Stems | internodes 4-lined at first, soon 2-lined, with black glands on or near lines. |
Leaves | spreading, sessile; blade ovate to oblong or lanceolate, 33–65 × 15–27 mm, base cordate to truncate or broadly cuneate, margins plane, apex obtuse to rounded, midrib with 4–5 pairs of branches, tertiary veins densely reticulate toward margins, black glands intramarginal (dense) and, sometimes, laminar (scattered). |
Inflorescences | subcorymbiform, (2–)5–14(–22)-flowered, subsidiary branches sometimes narrowly ascending or curved-ascending. |
Flowers | 20–25(–30) mm diam.; sepals not imbricate, erect in fruit, lanceolate, subequal, 5–7.5(–11) × 1–3 mm, apex acute; petals golden yellow, narrowly obovate, 11–18 mm; stamens 50–90(–103); anther gland black; styles 5.6–12 mm. |
Capsules | broadly ovoid, 5–8 × 3.5–5 mm, with longitudinal vittae. |
Seeds | not carinate, 0.8–1.1 mm; testa linear-reticulate. |
2n | = 16. |
Hypericum graveolens |
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Phenology | Flowering summer (Jun–Aug). |
Habitat | Open or partly shaded, moist habitats, dry, rocky roadside banks |
Elevation | 1200–2100 m (3900–6900 ft) |
Distribution |
NC; TN
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Discussion | The chromosome count of n = 16 by Adams (in N. K. B. Robson and W. P. Adams 1968) is now regarded as an error; see D. E. Culwell (1970). Hypericum graveolens is a relict species with close relatives in Japan; it hybridizes with H. ×mitchellianum and, probably, also with H. punctatum. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 6, p. 100. |
Parent taxa | Hypericaceae > Hypericum > sect. Hypericum |
Sibling taxa | |
Name authority | Buckley: Amer. J. Sci. Arts 45: 174. (1843) |
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