Hypericum crux-andreae
St. Peter's-wort
Family HypericaceaeAlso called St. Peterswort
About
St. Peter's-wort is a small shrubby St. John's wort of wet, sandy ground in eastern North America.
Field notes
Morphology
A perennial shrub 0.4–1 m tall with opposite simple leaves 1–4 cm long. Flowers have four or five petals, yellow or pink.
Distribution & habitat
Eastern North America, mainly the sandy Coastal Plain with extensions into the Piedmont and Cumberland Plateau. Grows in wet flatwoods, bogs and seeps, occasionally in drier places.
Habitat
- Altitude
- Not recorded
- Altitude class
- —
- Native to
- United States
Cultivation
- Difficulty
- Not recorded
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