Biology:Hypericum fasciculatum

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Short description: Species of flowering plant in the St John's wort family Hypericaceae

Hypericum fasciculatum
Peelbark St. Johns-wort (Hypericum fasciculatum) (6439017119).jpg
At Sweetbay Natural Area in Palm Beach County, Florida
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Hypericaceae
Genus: Hypericum
Section: H. sect. Myriandra
Subsection: H. subsect. Centrosperma
Species:
H. fasciculatum
Binomial name
Hypericum fasciculatum
Lam.
Synonyms[1]
  • Myriandra brathydis Hypericum fasciculatum var. aspalathoides
  • Brathydium fulgidum (Raf.) K.Koch
  • Willd. Torr. & A.Gray
  • Hypericum fulgidum Hypericum fasciculatum var. abbreviatum
  • Raf. Spach
  • Hypericum aspalathoides Alph.Wood
  • (Lam.) Svenson Hypericum galioides var. fasciculatum

Hypericum fasciculatum, known as peelbark St. Johnswort or sandweed, is a species of flowering plant in the St. Johnswort family, Hypericaceae, native to the southeastern United States.[1][2][3] It is found from eastern North Carolina, south to southern Florida, west to eastern Louisiana.[4] Kew's Plants of the World Online database also notes that it occurs in Cuba,[1] though Cuba is not listed in several other sources.[4][3][5] It was first described in 1797 by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.[6]

Peelbark St. Johnswort grows in wetlands including wet pine savannas, marshes, cypress ponds, and roadside ditches. It flowers from spring to fall.[4][3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Hypericum fasciculatum Lam.". Royal Botanical Gardens Kew. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:126209-2. 
  2. "Hypericum fasciculatum". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=HYFA. Retrieved 14 January 2019. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Robson, Norman K. B. (2015), "Hypericum fasciculatum", in Flora of North America Editorial Committee, Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA), 6, New York and Oxford, http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=250100854, retrieved 14 January 2019 
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Weakley, Alan S. (2018), Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States, working draft of 20 August 2018, University of North Carolina Herbarium, North Carolina Botanical Garden, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 
  5. "Hypericum fasciculatum Descriptions". http://hypericum.myspecies.info/taxonomy/term/907/descriptions. 
  6. "Hypericum fasciculatum Lam.". International Plant Names Index. http://beta.ipni.org/n/126209-2. 

Wikidata ☰ Q17812222 entry