Hypericum concinnum

Gold-wire

Family: Hypericaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Gold-wire is a California native perennial found in southwestern Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, Cascade Range foothills, northern and central Sierra Nevada, southeastern Sacramento Valley, and San Francisco Bay Area in annual grasslands, foothill woodlands, and conifer forests at elevations of 30 to 1,600 meters. Flowering from May to August, this plant produces golden-yellow flowers 10 to 15 millimeters long with black-dotted margins, typically arranged in clusters of 3 to 9 per stem. Growing with multiple slender stems 15 to 30 centimeters tall emerging from a woody base, it forms delicate, compact clusters. Its narrow leaves are 15 to 40 millimeters long, linear to lanceolate, often folded and sparsely marked with black dots. The fruit develops as a distinctive 6 to 7 millimeter three-lobed capsule containing dark green-brown seeds.

Habitat: Annual grassland, foothill woodland, conifer forest, occasionally on serpentine or gabbro

Bloom period: May-Aug

Elevation: 30-1600 m

Bioregions: sw KR, NCoR, CaRF, n&ampc SN, se ScV, SnFrB.

California counties: Butte, Mariposa, Amador, El Dorado, Nevada, Shasta, Lake, Mendocino, Tuolumne, Sonoma, Marin, Napa, Calaveras, Kern, Placer, Solano, Sacramento, Yuba, Humboldt, Stanislaus

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