| Author | (J.F. Gmelin) Gleason | |
| Distribution | Present over nearly all of the Coastal Plain, and scattered over the Piedmont; seemingly absent in the northwestern Piedmont and nearly all of the Mountains.
This is a Southern species that ranges north to southern NJ and southeastern MO, and south to northern FL and eastern TX. It is mostly absent in the Appalachians.
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| Abundance | Common in the northern half of the Coastal Plain, and fairly common in the southern half, except scarce in the Sandhills. Uncommon in the Piedmont, except very rare to absent in the northwestern portion. Very rare in the far southwestern Mountains. For whatever reason, the soil types or habitats in the northern Coastal Plain favor this species, as opposed to the similar T. virginicum. | |
| Habitat | This is a species of a wide array of wetlands, found in more habitats than is T. virginicum. It seems to favor brownwater (or richer) mud and soil than the other species, being found in swamps, pond and lake margins, marshes, floodplain pools, and other wet ground. The fact that is it not widely recorded in Sandhills counties makes it clear that H. walteri is mainly not found in acidic/blackwater habitats very often. | |
| Phenology | Blooms in August and September, and fruits not long after blooming. | |
| Identification | This is an herbaceous species and grows to an average of 2 feet tall; it typically is found in colonies. The generally elliptic leaves grow to about 2-2.5 inches long, with a rounded tip and rounded to tapered base, with a distinct petiole that averages about 1/4-inch long. The distinct petiole separates this species from the similar T. virginicum and T. tubulosum. All three have pink, five-petaled flowers in leaf axils and branch tips – not helpful in separation from the others. | |
| Taxonomic Comments | A few older references subsumed this species into T. tubulosum, as T. tubulosum var. walteri. Weakley (2020) has moved the pink-flowered former Hypericum species to Triadenum.
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| Other Common Name(s) | Walter’s Marsh St. John’s-wort | |
| State Rank | S4 [S5] | |
| Global Rank | G5 | |
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