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Common habitats include pine savannas, wet pine flatwoods, sinkole ponds, and other wet habitats. <ref name= "Weakley"> Weakley, A. S. (2015). Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Herbarium.</ref>
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Common habitats include pine savannas, wet pine flatwoods, sinkhole ponds, and other wet habitats that are in the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain, Eastern Mountains, great Plains, Midwest, North central and Northeast. <ref name= "Weakley"> Weakley, A. S. (2015). Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Herbarium.</ref> <ref name= "USDA"> [https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=CEAM USDA Plant Database]</ref>
  
General habitats are the Atlantic and Gulf COastal Plain, Eastern Mountains, great Plains, Midwest, Northcentral and Northeast. <ref name= "USDA"> [https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=CEAM USDA Plant Database]</ref>
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Specimens have been collected from habitats including edge of small pond in longleaf pine woodland, wet roadside depression, moist loamy sands, edge of wet savanna, and pine canopy forests. <ref name = "FSU herbarium"> URL: http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu. Last accessed: June 2018. Collectors: L.C. Anderson, R.K. Godfrey, B.Boothe, M. Boothe, V. Craig, William Platt. States and counties: Florida (Jackson, Franklin, Wakulla, Gadsden, Liberty, Jefferson) Georgia (Thomas)</ref>
 
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Revision as of 14:25, 14 June 2018

Common Names: claspingleaf St. Johnswort [1]

Hypericum gymnanthum
Hypericum gymnanthum IWF.jpg
Photo from Illinois Wildflowers Plant Database
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida - Dicots
Order: Theales
Family: Clusiaceae
Genus: Hypericum
Species: H. gymnanthum
Binomial name
Hypericum gymnanthum
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HYPE GYMN DIST.JPG
Natural range of Hypericum gymnanthum from USDA NRCS Plants Database.

Taxonomic Notes

Synonym:none

Variety:none

Description

H. gymnanthum is a perennial forb/herb of the Clusiaceae family that is native to North America. [1]

Distribution

H. gymnanthum is found throughout the eastern United States is a number of states; Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Virginia, Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, and New York. [1]

Ecology

Habitat

Common habitats include pine savannas, wet pine flatwoods, sinkhole ponds, and other wet habitats that are in the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain, Eastern Mountains, great Plains, Midwest, North central and Northeast. [2] [1]

Specimens have been collected from habitats including edge of small pond in longleaf pine woodland, wet roadside depression, moist loamy sands, edge of wet savanna, and pine canopy forests. [3]

Phenology

H. gymnanthum flowers in May, July, and August. [4]

Conservation and Management

H. gymnanthum is considered endangered in Maryland and Ohio. It is being extirpated ini Pennsylvania. [1]

Cultivation and restoration

Photo Gallery

References and notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 USDA Plant Database
  2. Weakley, A. S. (2015). Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Herbarium.
  3. URL: http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu. Last accessed: June 2018. Collectors: L.C. Anderson, R.K. Godfrey, B.Boothe, M. Boothe, V. Craig, William Platt. States and counties: Florida (Jackson, Franklin, Wakulla, Gadsden, Liberty, Jefferson) Georgia (Thomas)
  4. Pan Flora