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Shrubby St. John’s Wort is a Hearty Native with Beautiful Flowers

Late Blooms It’s very late fall (actually technically just became winter) and even in Florida we don’t have a lot of flowers blooming anymore. Every once in awhile I still stumble on a few out there, though. Last week when I went to hike around Watermelon Pond, I found several bushes of these pretty shrubby St. John’s wort (Hypericum prolificum) that were still blossoming. There was one by the…

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St Johnswort before sunrise.

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"Hypericaceae Field" - Otogirisou

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A bit of shrubby St. John's wort

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Yet more gifts of Appalachian summer.

I've been on a mission to catalogue as many of Central Appalachia's summer wildflowers and berries as possible for an online project I'm starting up. Above is the haul from yesterday, including the stunning orange-fringed orchid (Platanthera ciliaris), a grand summer orchid of Appalachia's wet seeps and meadows. Downy rattlesnake plantain (Goodyera pubescens), another of our summer-blooming orchids, may not be quite as showy, but its intricately-patterned leaves are quite striking. Turk's-cap lily (Lilium superbum) is also in bloom in our local wet meadows and swamps. It's distinguished from its close cousin Canada lily by more strongly recurved petals and a green, star-like pattern in the center of its flowers. A single Turk's cap lily can produce dozens of flowers from its rangy stems. At home in moist woodland edges and streambanks, summer phlox (Phlox paniculata), sometimes also referred to as fall phlox and garden phlox, produces loads of gorgeous pink or white flowers from mid-July through September. Because this phlox is commonly planted in gardens nowadays, it's hard to know if plants in the wild are true natives or escapees.

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Mountain St. John's-Wort

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St John's Wort - Erva-de-são-joão (Hypericum perforatum)

Alcácer do Sal/Portugal (25/05/2024)

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From our stacks: Illustration from Legends of Le Détroit. Marie Caroline Watson Hamlin. Illustrated by Miss Isabella Stewart. Detroit: Thorndike Press, 1885.

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‘St John’s Wort’ (2001). Directed by Ten Shimoyama.

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Summer flowers blooming in the garden

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Plant of the Day

Thursday 14 September 2023

Today I noticed these decorative berries in a border probably on Hypericum ‘Hidcote’ (St John's wort), certainly a sign of autumn. This shrub can be pruned to a woody base so it behaves like an herbaceous perennial.

Jill Raggett

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