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Stems

apical internode usually longer than adjacent one.

Leaf

blades broadly ovate or broadly oblong-ovate to suborbiculate.

Inflorescences

branching from 1–4(–6) nodes, branches diffuse and repeatedly monochasial distally.

Sepals

± imbricate, broader beyond middle.

Hypericum mutilum subsp. latisepalum

Phenology Flowering late spring–early summer (Apr–Jun).
Habitat Ditches, marshes, lake margins, desiccated temporary pools
Elevation 0–200 m (0–700 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
FL; GA; NJ; SC; TX
Discussion

Fernald recorded subsp. latisepalum from New Jersey; D. H. Webb (1980) did not record it north of South Carolina. No specimens have been seen from farther north than Georgia, where it appears to tend morphologically toward subsp. mutilum.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 6, p. 94.
Parent taxa Hypericaceae > Hypericum > sect. Brathys > Hypericum mutilum
Sibling taxa
H. mutilum subsp. mutilum
Synonyms H. mutilum var. latisepalum
Name authority (Fernald) N. Robson: Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Bot. 20: 119. (1990)
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