Hypericum hypericoides
St. Andrew's cross
Family Hypericaceae
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About
St. Andrew's cross is a small shrub with four-petalled yellow flowers, found in dry woods on acidic soil from the southeastern United States to the Caribbean.
Field notes
Morphology
A shrub or shrublet 0.3–1 m tall with linear to elliptic leaves 8–26 mm long.
Distribution & habitat
Southeastern United States, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, in dry woods on acidic soil.
History & etymology
Some treatments recognise subspecies hypericoides and multicaule, but the latter is usually treated as a separate species, H. stragulum.
Habitat
- Altitude
- Not recorded
- Altitude class
- —
- Native to
- United States, Mexico
- IUCN status
- Least concern
Cultivation
- Difficulty
- Not recorded
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