Hypericum densiflorum Pursh

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Hypericum densiflorum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/hypericum/hypericum-densiflorum/). Accessed 2024-03-28.

Glossary

capsule
Dry dehiscent fruit; formed from syncarpous ovary.
lanceolate
Lance-shaped; broadest in middle tapering to point.
linear
Strap-shaped.

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Hypericum densiflorum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/hypericum/hypericum-densiflorum/). Accessed 2024-03-28.

An evergreen shrub 2 to 4 ft high (6 ft in the wild); branches erect, two-angled. Leaves 1 to 2 in. long, usually less than 14 in. wide, linear-lanceolate, recurved at the edges. Flowers very numerous, in compact cymose panicles; each flower 12 in. across. Fruits three-celled, slender, 14 in. long, subtended by the five oval-oblong, spreading sepals.

Native of the pine-barrens from New Jersey to Florida, and from Kentucky west to Arkansas and Texas. It is a near ally of the commoner H. prolificum, but is smaller in flower and narrower in leaf; its fruit also is more slender.

H. lobocarpum Gattinger H. densiflorum var. lobocarpum (Gattinger) Svenson – Capsule deeply lobed, four- or five-celled; styles four or five. N. Carolina to Louisiana.