Skye Flora

Trailing St John's Wort


Hypericum humifusum

 

Photo © Gill & Adrian Smith
Ryedale Naturalists
(30 Aug 2000 Ryedale, Yorks)

Rare on dry acid moorland

Flower diameter c 8-12 mm

Skye ID: Told from other Skye St John's Worts by petals being hardly longer than sepals.  Easily told as a St John's Wort by the large number of stamens and the translucent glands visible when leaf held up to the light.

Other features: Stem very thin, with 2 raised lines.  Leaves and petals often with black dots around the margin on the underside.  Plant hairlesss, trailing along the ground.

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