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Scientific name:

Hypericum androsaemum

Vernacular name:

Tutsan


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Tutsan

Scientific name: Hypericum androsaemum L.

Diagnostic features
Erect ± deciduous glabrous shrub with branched 2-ridged stems to 0.8m.
Flowers 1.5-2.5cm across.
Stamens c. as long as petals.

Chromosome number: 2n=40.

Habitat
Native; damp woods and shady hedgebanks.

Distribution
Locally frequent throughout most of British Isles, especially in West, but almost absent from Northeast Scotland; cultivated and sometimes naturalized.

This species is keyed out on Page 3867 in the Text Key.

Hybrids
- See Hypericum inodorum(x) Mill. (= Hypericum androsaemum x Hypericum hircinum)

Hypericum androsaemum (Tutsan)
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