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Hypericum drummondii (Greville & Hooker) Torrey & A. Gray. Section: Brathys. Common name: Drummond's St. John's-wort, Nits-and-lice. Phenology: Jul-Sep. Habitat: Dry woodlands, woodland borders, fields. Distribution: MD west to OH, IL, and se. KS, south to Panhandle FL and c. TX.

Origin/Endemic status: Native

Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, C, F, Fl2, FNA6, G, GrPl, GW2, Il, K4, Mo2, NcTx, NS, Pa, POWO, RAB, Tat, Tn, Tx, Va, W, WH3, WV, Adams (1973), Robson (2006); = Sarothra drummondii Grev. & Hook. — S, S13. Basionym: Sarothra drummondii Grev. & Hook. 1833

Links to other floras: = Hypericum drummondii - FNA6

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACU
  • Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: UPL
  • Great Plains: FACU
  • Midwest: FACU
  • Northcentral & Northeast: FACU

Heliophily ⓘ: 8

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Horticultural Information

NCBG trait

Intro: Erect, sometimes bushy annual found in fields, dry clearings and woodlands, woodland borders, rock outcrops, barrens and exposed, eroding sites.

Stems: Stems rigid, with many ascending, wing-angled branches.

Leaves: Leaves opposite, sessile, linear to almost needle-like, to 3/4 in. long, numerous and ascending (close but not pressed to stem).

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers solitary in leaf axils on short stalks, scattered abundantly along leafy branches; yellow; consisting of 5 oblong-oval or asymmetrically-shaped petals (giving a pinwheel effect), 5 lance-shaped sepals (usually as long as or longer than petals) and an erect cluster of stamens and a pistil in the center.

Fruits: Fruit an erect, reddish, oval capsule.

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Height: 4-20 in.

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description: Erect, sometimes bushy annual found in fields, dry clearings and woodlands, woodland borders, rock outcrops, barrens and exposed, eroding sites.

stems: Stems rigid, with many ascending, wing-angled branches.

leaves: Leaves opposite, sessile, linear to almost needle-like, to 3/4 in. long, numerous and ascending (close but not pressed to stem).

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers solitary in leaf axils on short stalks, scattered abundantly along leafy branches; yellow; consisting of 5 oblong-oval or asymmetrically-shaped petals (giving a pinwheel effect), 5 lance-shaped sepals (usually as long as or longer than petals) and an erect cluster of stamens and a pistil in the center.

fruits: Fruit an erect, reddish, oval capsule.

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