Shrubby St. John's-wort
Hypericum prolificum
Yellow flowers from June into October, worked by mining bees and yellow-banded bumble bees. It grows wild in 37 of Arkansas’s 75 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 3 ft to 5 ft tall, 2.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Yellow, Jun to Oct
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Woody roots; wants 10 in of soil
- Kind
- Shrub
At its grown size
in flowerfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 16 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
Calico Aster
New Jersey Tea
Bluestem Goldenrod
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
Black-eyed Susan
New England Aster
Foxglove BeardtongueFacts from the Quercus record for Hypericum prolificum.