Hypericum mutilum |
Hypericum mutilum subsp. latisepalum |
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dwarf St. John's-wort, small Canadian St. John's-wort, small flower st john's wort |
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Habit | Herbs annual or perennial, usually erect, sometimes decumbent and rooting, basal branches sometimes present, usually with to 10 pairs of spreading branches distal to middle, 0.5–8 dm. | |||||
Stems | internodes 4-angled. |
apical internode usually longer than adjacent one. |
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Leaves | spreading, sessile or amplexicaul; blade paler abaxially, ovate, elliptic, or elliptic-oblong (proximal), ovate or suborbiculate to elliptic or lanceolate (mid and distal), 3–27(–40) × 1–15 mm, papery to membranous, margins plane, apex obtuse to rounded, basal veins 3–5, midrib with to 3 pairs of branches. |
blades broadly ovate or broadly oblong-ovate to suborbiculate. |
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Inflorescences | cylindric, 5–60-flowered, branching mostly dichasial; bracts linear-subulate. |
branching from 1–4(–6) nodes, branches diffuse and repeatedly monochasial distally. |
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Flowers | 3–5 mm diam.; sepals lanceolate to linear-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong to oblanceolate, equal or unequal, 2–4.5 × 0.6–1.5 mm, margins sometimes ciliate, not setulose-ciliate, apex usually acute to apiculate, sometimes obtuse to rounded; petals pale yellow, oblong, 1.7–3.5 mm; stamens 5–16, scarcely grouped; styles 0.5 mm; stigmas broadly capitate. |
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Capsules | narrowly ovoid to cylindric-ellipsoid, 2–5 × 1.6–2.4 mm, usually broadest at or near middle. |
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Seeds | 0.4–0.7 mm; testa finely linear-scalariform. |
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Sepals | ± imbricate, broader beyond middle. |
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Hypericum mutilum |
Hypericum mutilum subsp. latisepalum |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–early summer (Apr–Jun). | |||||
Habitat | Ditches, marshes, lake margins, desiccated temporary pools | |||||
Elevation | 0–200 m (0–700 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
AL; AR; CA; CO; CT; DC; DE; FL; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MO; MS; NC; NE; NH; NJ; NY; OH; OK; OR; PA; RI; SC; TN; TX; UT; VA; VT; WA; WI; WV; BC; NB; NS; ON; QC; SK [Introduced in w North America]
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FL; GA; NJ; SC; TX |
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 6, p. 93. | FNA vol. 6, p. 94. | ||||
Parent taxa | Hypericaceae > Hypericum > sect. Brathys | Hypericaceae > Hypericum > sect. Brathys > Hypericum mutilum | ||||
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Synonyms | Sarothra mutila | H. mutilum var. latisepalum | ||||
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 787. (1753) | (Fernald) N. Robson: Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Bot. 20: 119. (1990) | ||||
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