Golden St. John's-wort
Hypericum frondosum
Yellow flowers from May into August, worked by mining bees and yellow-banded bumble bees. It grows wild in 27 of Alabama’s 67 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 3.5 ft to 4 ft tall, 3.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Yellow, May to Aug
- Leaves
- Semi-evergreen
- Roots
- Woody roots
- Kind
- Shrub
At its grown size
in flower
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 18 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 43 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Mining bee (Andrena gardineri), Yellow-banded bumble bee (Bombus terricola), Masked bee (Hylaeus modestus), Green sweat bee (Augochloropsis metallica)
Grows well with
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
Calico Aster
New Jersey Tea
Bluestem Goldenrod
New England Aster
Swamp Azalea
Fragrant SumacFacts from the Quercus record for Hypericum frondosum.