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§1 Plant
Hypericum denticulatum Walter
vernacular coppery St. Johnswort — species · Clusiaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Clusiaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Hypericum
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 102 counties across 13 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 2 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 185 min.
- Precipitation
- 36–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.8–6.4
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 2 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Summer
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Propagation
- container, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 102 counties across 13 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 6 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 8 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 2 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 2 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Allendale 45005
- Bamberg 45009
- Barnwell 45011
- Beaufort 45013
- Berkeley 45015
- Calhoun 45017
- Charleston 45019
- Clarendon 45027
- Colleton 45029
- Darlington 45031
- Dorchester 45035
- Florence 45041
- Georgetown 45043
- Hampton 45049
- Horry 45051
- Jasper 45053
- Lee 45061
- Lexington 45063
- Marlboro 45069
- Orangeburg 45075
- Sumter 45085
- Williamsburg 45089
Tennessee view state ↗ 8 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/HYDE2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3189539 ↗Record version
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