Hypericum anagalloides

Tinker's penny, Tinker's Penny

Family: Hypericaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Tinker's penny is a California native perennial found in northwestern California, Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, northeastern Sacramento Valley, eastern San Joaquin Valley, Central Coast, San Francisco Bay Area, southern California mountains, San Bernardino Mountains, Peninsular Ranges, and Modoc Plateau in meadows, marshes, seeps, springs, streambanks, and lake margins at elevations up to 3,220 meters. Flowering from May to September, this plant produces gold to salmon-colored flowers 2 to 4 millimeters long with typically 15 to 25 stamens. Growing with prostrate to decumbent slender stems 3 to 30 centimeters tall that root at lower nodes, it spreads through matted stolons. Its leaves are elliptic to nearly round, 4 to 15 millimeters long with clear to green gland-dots, becoming linear and reduced near stem tips. The fruit is a small spheric to oblong capsule approximately 3 millimeters long.

Habitat: Meadows, marshes, seeps, springs, streambanks, lake margins

Bloom period: May-Sep

Elevation: < 3220 m

Bioregions: NW, CaR, SN (exc Teh), ne ScV, e SnJV, CCo, SnFrB, SnGb, SnBr, PR, MP

California counties: Mendocino, Tuolumne, Butte, Plumas, Tulare, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Kern, Fresno, San Diego, Placer, El Dorado, Amador, Mono, Modoc, San Mateo, Marin, Alpine, Calaveras, Del Norte, Glenn, Humboldt, Inyo, Los Angeles, Madera, Merced, Napa, Riverside, San Joaquin, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Sierra, Tehama, Trinity, Lake, Mariposa, Monterey, Nevada, Shasta, San Francisco, Sonoma, Santa Cruz, Siskiyou, Yuba, Solano, Lassen, Stanislaus

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.