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mountain St. Johnswort

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

Phenology Flowering summer (Jun–Aug).
Habitat Open or partly shaded, moist habitats, dry, rocky roadside banks
Elevation 1200–2100 m (3900–6900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
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
H. adpressum, H. anagalloides, H. apocynifolium, H. ascyron, H. boreale, H. brachyphyllum, H. buckleyi, H. canadense, H. canariense, H. chapmanii, H. cistifolium, H. concinnum, H. crux-andreae, H. cumulicola, H. densiflorum, H. denticulatum, H. dolabriforme, H. drummondii, H. edisonianum, H. ellipticum, H. erythreae, H. fasciculatum, H. frondosum, H. galioides, H. gentianoides, H. gymnanthum, H. harperi, H. hypericoides, H. kalmianum, H. lissophloeus, H. lloydii, H. lobocarpum, H. maculatum, H. majus, H. microsepalum, H. mutilum, H. myrtifolium, H. nitidum, H. nudiflorum, H. paucifolium, H. perforatum, H. prolificum, H. pseudomaculatum, H. punctatum, H. radfordiorum, H. scouleri, H. setosum, H. sphaerocarpum, H. suffruticosum, H. tenuifolium, H. tetrapetalum, H. virgatum, H. ×mitchellianum
Name authority Buckley: Amer. J. Sci. Arts 45: 174. (1843)
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