Hypericum calycinum | |
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Bauer's Illustration from Sibthorp's Flora Graeca | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Malpighiales |
Family: | Hypericaceae |
Genus: | Hypericum |
Section: | H. sect. Ascyreia |
Species: | H. calycinum
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Binomial name | |
Hypericum calycinum |
Hypericum calycinum is a species of prostrate or low-growing shrub in the flowering plant family Hypericaceae. Widely cultivated for its large yellow flowers, its names as a garden plant include rose-of-Sharon in Britain[3] and Australia, and Aaron's beard, great St-John's wort, creeping St. John's wort[4] and Jerusalem star. Grown in Mediterranean climates, widely spread in the Strandzha Mountains along the Bulgarian and Turkish Black Sea coast.