Hypericum fasciculatum

Hypericum fasciculatum
At Sweetbay Natural Area in Palm Beach County, Florida
Scientific classification
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]
Brathydium fulgidum(Raf.) K.Koch Hypericum aspalathoidesWilld. Hypericum fasciculatum var. abbreviatumAlph.Wood Hypericum fasciculatum var. aspalathoidesTorr. & A.Gray Hypericum fulgidumRaf. Hypericum galioides var. fasciculatum(Lam.) Svenson Myriandra brathydisSpach

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]}

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  In Palm Beach County, Florida

References

1. "Hypericum fasciculatum Lam". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanical Gardens Kew. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
2. NRCS. "Hypericum fasciculatum". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 14 January 2019.
3. Robson, Norman K. B. (2015). "Hypericum fasciculatum". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). Vol. 6. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved 14 January 2019– via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
4. 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". hypericum.myspecies.info. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
6. "Hypericum fasciculatum Lam". ipni.org. International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 14 January 2019.