North Carolina Wildflowers

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Hypericaceae

St. Andrew's Cross (Hypericum stragulum) St. Andrew's Cross (Hypericum stragulum)
Caswell Co., NC
17 June 2006

Common in the NC mountains and piedmont (uncommon in the coastal plain), St. Andrew's Cross grows in dry woodlands.

St. Andrew's Cross (Hypericum stragulum) St. Andrew's Cross (Hypericum stragulum)
Caswell Co., NC
17 June 2006

Also treated as Hypericum hypericoides ssp. multicaule, Alan Weakley points out that this species is often misspelled as H. stragalum.


Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Common names from personal experience and supplemented by the following resources USDA plants website, Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, and NatureServe.


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