Hypericum mutilum

Author: Kelly Kurz-Blalock

Courtesy,University of Georgia Herbarium

Common Names:(Abrams.,1951)

• Small Flowered St. John's-Wort
• Dwarf St. John's-Wort(Eisendrath.,1978)

Higher Taxa: (Fernald.,1950)

• Division: Spermatophyta
• Subdivision: Angiospermae
• Class: Dicotyledons
• Order: Parietales
• Family: Guttiferae
• Genus: Hypercium
• Species: mutilum

Identification: Eisendrath describes the species Hypericum mutilum as follows, "Flowers on long slender pedicels; to 4mm wide; light orange yellow. Leaves opposite, entire sessile, to 4cm. long, 3 to 5 nerved, partly clasping. Weak slender stem widely branching above; twigs 4 angled, to 9 dm. tall. Inflorescence, commonly much-branched and many flowered; often with leafy bracts; terminal(Eisendrath.,1978)

The Swedish botanist, Carl Linnaeus (1708-178) first identified and recorded the species Hypericum mutilum in the book Species Pantarum on page 787(Jackson.,1895)

Geography: The species Hypericum mutilum grows as far north as Canada and as far south as Florida. Westward, mutilum can be found in Kansas and other centeral states, then skips into California. For more information, refer to table.

How to Encounter: The species mutilum, grow in "marshy and exposed shores, wet meadows, sand and gravel bars, floodplain woodlands, wet clearings, on floating logs and in islands of floating vegetation, alluvial outwash, and ditches(Godfrey., 1981).

Table I: North American Distribution of Hyericum mutilum

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