Hypericum frondosum Michx.

TSO logo

Sponsor this page

For information about how you could sponsor this page, see How You Can Help

Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Hypericum frondosum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/hypericum/hypericum-frondosum/). Accessed 2024-11-06.

Synonyms

  • H. aureum Bartr., not Lour.

Glossary

cone
Term used here primarily to indicate the seed-bearing (female) structure of a conifer (‘conifer’ = ‘cone-producer’); otherwise known as a strobilus. A number of flowering plants produce cone-like seed-bearing structures including Betulaceae and Casuarinaceae.

References

There are no active references in this article.

Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Hypericum frondosum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/hypericum/hypericum-frondosum/). Accessed 2024-11-06.

A deciduous, much-branched shrub of rounded habit, about 4 ft high, often rising on a single stem from which the lower branches have fallen, thus giving it the aspect of a miniature tree; the older branches covered with a greyish brown, peeling bark; young shoots two-winged. Leaves blue-green, oblong, 1 to 2 in. long, with a minute, abrupt point, and numerous transparent glands. Flowers in clusters terminating the shoot and its upper branches, orange-yellow, 112 in. across, the stamens forming a dense brush 34 in. across. The fruit is a three-celled, broad-based cone 12 in. high, with the very large, leaflike, unequal sepals at the base. Bot. Mag., t. 8498.

Discovered by Bartram in 1776 ‘upon the steep dry banks of the Patse-Lega Creek, a branch of the Flint River’, Georgia, this hypericum, despite its great beauty, does not appear to have reached this country until late in the 19th century. Healthy plants flower and set their fruit in extraordinary abundance, and it is wise to remove the latter except such as may be required for seed. It appears to prefer rocky places in its native home, and is often found on the cliffs of river-courses where it gets some shade. It is wild in several of the south-eastern United States, and is the handsomest of all the American species in cultivation here.