Hypericum hookerianum

Hooker's st. johnswort

Family: Hypericaceae · Type: shrub · Not Native

Hooker's st. johnswort is a naturalized shrub found in the northern California coastal region of Mendocino County in shaded forest at an elevation of 30 meters. Flowering in July, this plant produces bright yellow flowers 15 to 30 millimeters long in small clusters of 1 to 5 blooms. Growing as an evergreen shrub with erect to spreading branches, it reaches 3 to 2.1 meters tall with many-branched stems. Its leaves are ovate to broadly lanceolate, 25 to 75 millimeters long, with glands appearing in short lines or dots across the leaf surface. The fruit is an ovoid capsule 9 to 17 millimeters long, containing tiny dark red-brown seeds.

Habitat: Shaded forest

Bloom period: Jul

Elevation: 30 m

Bioregions: NCo (Mendocino Co.)

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