. Common plants of longleaf pine-bluestem range. Plant ecology; Grasses; Forage plants. Hypericum hypericoides ( L.) Crantz This member of the family, Gutti- ferae, is a diffusely branched deciduous shrub that grows mainly on sandy sites. Plants seldon exceed 3 feet high. Frequent burning reduces size materi- ally, causing this shrub to resemble a small forb. Stems of are dark brown with stringy, fibrous bark. Leaves are opposite but may appear whorled. Blades are smooth margined, hair- less, and linear to oblong. They are % to 1 lM inches lon
. Common plants of longleaf pine-bluestem range. Plant ecology; Grasses; Forage plants. Hypericum hypericoides ( L.) Crantz This member of the family, Gutti- ferae, is a diffusely branched deciduous shrub that grows mainly on sandy sites. Plants seldon exceed 3 feet high. Frequent burning reduces size materi- ally, causing this shrub to resemble a small forb. Stems of are dark brown with stringy, fibrous bark. Leaves are opposite but may appear whorled. Blades are smooth margined, hair- less, and linear to oblong. They are % to 1 lM inches long, and about Vs to Vi inch wide. Their surfaces are dotted with small, dark depressions. Flowering begins in early summer and continues into fall. Flowers are less than 1 inch wide, with four sepals, four petals, and numerous stamens. The pale yellow petals fall quickly, but sepals re- main until seeds mature. The two outer, opposite sepals are much larger than the inner pair and clasp the developing capsule until dispersal of the numerous tiny hard seeds. After petals fall, flowers appear as flattened, egg-shaped, podlike structures. Atlantic , Hypericum stans (Michx.) Adams & Robson, resembles cross. The most obvious difference is in the anatomy of the flowers; those of Atlantic have three or four styles, those of cross, only two. is of little forage value. Cattle probably graze small plants inadvertently, and deer browse it when better forage is scarce. Range: Texas and Nebraska to Florida and Mas- sachusetts. Stems erect, diffusely branched, to 1 m. tall, branches dark brown, bark fibrous, stringy; leaves simple, deciduous. opposite with axillary fascicles of reduced leaves, pale green, punctate, glabrous, linear to oblanceolate, sessile, 2-3 cm. long, 2-5 mm. wide; flowers terminal and axillary, solitary; sepals four, punctate, dimorphic, the outer pair subcordate, 7-9 mm. long, 3-10 mm. broad,
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