IN SITU PHOTOGRAPHY RELATING TO 

Hypericum radfordiorum Weakley ex J. R. Allison

by James R. Allison. Copyright 2010. All rights reserved.  

 

 

Alexander County, North Carolina: Little Joe Mountain

July 18, 2003
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View from Little Joe Mountain to Joe Mountain. Granite outcrops in the Brushy Mountains are often strongly sloping.

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Less strongly sloping portion of outcrop. The yellow flowers are Coreopsis pubescens var. robusta.
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Coreopsis pubescens var. robusta

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This is the location where, in 1965, Al Radford discovered Pellaea wrightiana Hooker to be disjunct in North Carolina (though originally misidentified as P. glabella Mettenius ex Kuhn). 

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Habit (with leaves drooping from drought)
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Upper stem

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Subnaked inflorescence, and distinctly foliose supernumerary flowering-branches.
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Fresh leaf densely translucent-punctate, more like Hypericum harperi than H. virgatum