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 2 of Florida’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
- 15 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
Swamp Azalea
Fragrant Sumac
Black-eyed Susan
Brown-eyed Susan
Small's RagwortFacts from the Quercus record for Hypericum frondosum.