Hypericum gentianoides
Orangegrass
Family HypericaceaeAlso called Pineweed
About
Orangegrass is a wiry annual St. John's wort of poor, exposed soils in eastern North America, named for the citrus smell of crushed stems.
Field notes
Morphology
Grows 10–40 cm tall. Leaves are reduced to scales 1–3 mm long pressed against the stem, which limits water loss. Flowers are no more than 3 mm across.
Distribution & habitat
Ontario, Nova Scotia and Maine south to Florida, west to Texas and north to Missouri and Minnesota, in fields, flatwoods, rock outcrops, sand and sometimes coastal marshes.
Habitat
- Altitude
- Not recorded
- Altitude class
- —
- Native to
- Canada, United States
Cultivation
- Difficulty
- Not recorded
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