Hypericum ellipticum Hook. - Pale St. John's Wort


 

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Hypericum ellipticum - (image 1 of 4)

 

Taxonomy

Family: Hypericaceae

Habitat

Wet shores, marshes, wet meadows.

Associates

 

Distribution

Newfoundland and Nova Scotia to western Ontario, south to CT, NY, MI, MN, and in mountains to WV and NC.

Morphology

Herbaceous, rhizomatous perennial; stem simple to the inflorescence, 20-50 cm; leaves elliptic, 1-3(-4) cm long, obtuse or rounded at both ends or somewhat tapering toward the base, not revolute; cymes with few-many flowers; bracts linear or lanceolate; sepals oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, to 6 mm; petals 5-7 mm; stigmas 3(4), minute; fruit unilocular, the placentas slightly intruded, ovoid, 5-6 mm, rounded to a short beak.

Notes

Flowers July to August

Wetland indicator: OBL

Usually found in areas without much competing vegetation.

References

Gleason, Henry A. and A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada. Second Ed.
The New York Botanical Garden. Bronx, NY

 


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