About
A small shrubby St. John's wort of pine savannas and wet flatwoods in the southeastern United States.
Field notes
Morphology
Grows 0.2–0.9 m tall with opposite, stalkless, oblong to lance-shaped leaves. Five-petalled yellow flowers appear June to August.
Distribution & habitat
Eastern North Carolina south to South Florida and west to eastern Texas, in pine savannas and wet pine flatwoods.
Ecology
Insect-pollinated; the bee Megachile mendica has been recorded visiting it in northern Florida.
Habitat
- Altitude
- Not recorded
- Altitude class
- —
- Native to
- United States
Cultivation
- Difficulty
- Not recorded
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