Scientific Name: Hypericum elodes (Clusiaceae).
English Name: Marsh St Johns Wort (St Johns Wort Family).
French Name: Millepertuis des marais (='marsh thousand vein').
5 Key Characters:
Habitat: Bog pools, hollows, swamps and wet heaths. Needs a combination of full sun and still acidic water. Often grows on sedge root mounds. Tolerates a certain amount of trampling. Favours the 'tails' of étangs, ephemeral, fragile environments.
Flowering Period: June-July-August-September.
Status: Rare everywhere, and especially in the Touraine Loire Valley and Brenne, where the species is on the eastern limits of its range. Can be a conspicuous species of ephemeral pools here.
Further Reading and References:
The Wild Flower Key by Francis Rose.
Photographed by Loire Valley Nature:
All photos will enlarge in a new window if you click on them. Row 1 left in the drawdown zone of the Etang de Ribaloche in the Foret de Preuilly, June.
English Name: Marsh St Johns Wort (St Johns Wort Family).
French Name: Millepertuis des marais (='marsh thousand vein').
5 Key Characters:- not a very typical looking St Johns Wort.
- grey woolly hair.
- creeping plant which roots along the stems at leaf nodes where they touch the ground.
- almost circular oval or heart shaped leaves.
- yellow flowers which don't open flat and the sepals have red dots on the edge.
Habitat: Bog pools, hollows, swamps and wet heaths. Needs a combination of full sun and still acidic water. Often grows on sedge root mounds. Tolerates a certain amount of trampling. Favours the 'tails' of étangs, ephemeral, fragile environments.
Flowering Period: June-July-August-September.
Status: Rare everywhere, and especially in the Touraine Loire Valley and Brenne, where the species is on the eastern limits of its range. Can be a conspicuous species of ephemeral pools here.
Further Reading and References:
The Wild Flower Key by Francis Rose.
Photographed by Loire Valley Nature:
All photos will enlarge in a new window if you click on them. Row 1 left in the drawdown zone of the Etang de Ribaloche in the Foret de Preuilly, June.
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