{{Short description|Species of flowering plant in the St John's wort family}} {{Speciesbox |image = |parent = Hypericum subsect. Centrosperma |display_parents = 2 |genus = Hypericum |species = galioides |authority = Lam.<ref name=ipni/> |synonyms_ref= |synonyms = }}
'''''Hypericum galioides''''', the '''bedstraw St. Johnswort''',<ref name=usda/> is a species of flowering plant in the St. John's wort family, Hypericaceae.<ref name=hyp/><ref name=powo/> It is endemic to the Southeastern United States.
==Description== It is a slender, branching shrublet up to {{cvt|1.5|m}} tall with linear to oblanceolate leaves.<ref name=hyp/> The sessile leaves are {{cvt|15–37|cm}} long and {{cvt|1–7|mm}} across with mostly acute tips.<ref name=hyp/><ref name=gray7/> The flowers are small, in terminal and axillary cymes, with very narrow sepals. Each flower is {{cvt|9–14|mm}} in diameter with 5 bright yellow petals and 60–120 stamens.<ref name=hyp/> It flowers in the summer, between June and August.<ref name=fna/> The 3-parted fruits are {{cvt|4.5–6|mm}} long and ovoid.<ref name=hyp/><ref name=fna/>
==Distribution and habitat== ''Hypericum galioides'' occurs in wet to moist habitats in the coastal plain of the southeastern United States. It has been recorded from North Carolina south to northern Florida and west to the eastern parts of Texas, but excluding most of the Mississippi delta.<ref name=hyp/><ref name=usda/> Habitat types include streambanks, swamps, river bottoms, floodplains, lake edges, wet pine forests, and ditches.<ref name=hyp/>
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=fna>{{eFloras|1|250100846|volume=6|''Hypericum galioides''|last1=Robson|first1=Norman K. B.|accessdate=2018-11-03}}</ref> <ref name=gray7>{{cite book |last=Gray |first=Asa |author-link=Asa Gray |editor=Benjamin Lincoln Robinson and Merritt Lyndon Fernald |title=Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Central and Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada |orig-year=1847|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/76876#page/577/mode/1up |access-date=2018-11-03 |edition= Seventh|year=1908 |publisher=American Book Company |location=New York}}</ref> <ref name=hyp>{{Cite web|url=http://hypericum.myspecies.info/taxonomy/term/909/descriptions|title=''Hypericum galioides'' Lam. Descriptions|website=hypericum.myspecies.info|access-date=2018-11-03}}</ref> <ref name=ipni>{{cite web |title=''Hypericum galioides'' Lam.|url=https://beta.ipni.org/n/126222-2|website=ipni.org |publisher=International Plant Names Index|access-date=2018-11-03}}</ref> <ref name=powo>{{cite web|title=''Hypericum galioides''|url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:126222-2 |website=Plants of the World Online|publisher=Royal Botanical Gardens Kew |access-date=2018-11-03}}</ref> <ref name=usda>{{PLANTS|id=HYGA|taxon=Hypericum galioides|access-date=2018-11-03}}</ref> }}
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galioides Category:Flora of the Southeastern United States Category:Flora of the South-Central United States Category:Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Category:Flora without expected TNC conservation status