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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