Hypericum cerastoides
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Hypericum cerastoides' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Synonyms
- Campylopus cerastoides Spach
- H. rhodoppeum Frivaldsky
Other taxa in genus
- Hypericum acmosepalum
- Hypericum addingtonii
- Hypericum aegypticum
- Hypericum androsaemum
- Hypericum augustinii
- Hypericum balearicum
- Hypericum bellum
- Hypericum buckleyi
- Hypericum calycinum
- Hypericum chinense
- Hypericum choisianum
- Hypericum cordifolium
- Hypericum coris
- Hypericum × cyathiflorum
- Hypericum densiflorum
- Hypericum 'Eastleigh Gold'
- Hypericum empetrifolium
- Hypericum ericoides
- Hypericum forrestii
- Hypericum frondosum
- Hypericum galioides
- Hypericum grandifolium
- Hypericum 'Hidcote'
- Hypericum hircinum
- Hypericum hookeranum
- Hypericum hypericoides
- Hypericum × inodorum
- Hypericum kalmianum
- Hypericum kouytchense
- Hypericum leschenaultii
- Hypericum lobbii
- Hypericum monogynum
- Hypericum × moseranum
- Hypericum × moserianum
- Hypericum nudiflorum
- Hypericum olympicum
- Hypericum patulum
- Hypericum prolificum
- Hypericum reptans
- Hypericum revolutum
- Hypericum stellatum
- Hypericum subsessile
- Hypericum wilsonii
- Hypericum xylosteifolium
An evergreen sub-shrub of tufted habit, producing dense rounded clusters, 12 in. or more across, with erect or procumbent, slender, hairy, terete stems 3 to 6 in. long, springing from a woody root-stock. Leaves in decussate pairs, rather crowded, stalkless, 1⁄4 to 5⁄8 in. long, oval, apex rounded, hairy on both surfaces. Flowers bright yellow, 1 to 11⁄2 in. across, springing from the terminal leaf-axils in clusters of three or four; petals oblong, 1⁄8 to 1⁄4 in. wide; stamens very numerous, about 1⁄4 in. long.
Native of the south-eastern parts of the Balkan peninsula and of north-west Turkey. It is profuse flowering and attractive in May. Suitable for the rock garden.
From the Supplement (Vol. V)
The only member of the section Campylopus, this differs from H. olympicum and H. polyphyllum (section Olympia) in its pendulous seed-capsules and the downiness of the stems, leaves and sepals.