About
Hairy St John's-wort is a downy perennial of temperate Europe and western Siberia with many pale yellow flowers.
Field notes
Morphology
Grows 60–90 cm tall with erect stems and opposite, elongated oval leaves dotted with translucent glands. Five pointed sepals carry stalked black dots on their margins. Like common St John's wort but separated by its downy stems and much longer leaves.
Distribution & habitat
Europe and western Siberia. Widespread in Britain except the far north and west; rare in Ireland and localised in Finland.
Habitat
- Altitude
- Not recorded
- Altitude class
- —
- Native to
- United Kingdom, Ireland, Finland, France, Russia
Cultivation
- Difficulty
- Not recorded
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