Scientific name:

Hypericum elodes

Vernacular name:

St John's-wort, Marsh

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Marsh St John's-wort

Scientific name: Hypericum elodes L.

Diagnostic features
Densely pubescent stoloniferous perennial with ascending to erect flowering stems to 40cm.
Flowers 12-20mm across.
Red glands on sepals stalked.

Chromosome number: 2n=16, 32.

Habitat
Native; bogs, pondsides and streamsides on acid soil.

Distribution
Locally frequent in suitable places throughout British Isles in West and South, but rare or absent in Central & East.

This species is keyed out on Page 3860 inthe Text Key.

Hypericum elodes L.

Marsh St John's-wort (English)
St John's-wort, Marsh [English]

Hypericum elodes 2 (Flowering habit, picture taken in Islay by H.J.B. Birks)
Hypericum elodes 3 (Flowering habit, picture taken in the Netherlands by D. Prins)
Hypericum elodes 4 (Flowering habit, picture taken in S Hants by J. Mason)
Hypericum elodes 5 (Flowering, picture taken in S Hants by J. Mason)

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