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St. John's Wort Family
(Family Hypericaceae)
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Hypericaceae is a plant family in the order Malpighiales, comprising ca 6 genera and 590 species. Molecular data supports its monophyly. Some systematists treat it as a subfamily of the Clusiaceae. When it is accepted as a distinct family, it contains the following genera:
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St. John's Worts Tribe
(Tribe Hypericeae)
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Hypericeae is a tribe of the Hypericaceae family that contains the genera Hypericum, Thornea, and Lianthus.
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St. John's Worts
(Genus Hypericum)
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Hypericum /ˌhaɪˈpiːrɪkəm/ is a genus of flowering plants in the family Hypericaceae (formerly considered a subfamily of Clusiaceae). The genus has a nearly worldwide distribution, missing only from tropical lowlands, deserts and polar regions. Many Hypericum species are regarded as invasive species and noxious weeds. All members of the genus may be referred to as St. John's wort, and some are known as goatweed. The white or pink flowered marsh St. John's worts o
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Common St. John's Wort
(Hypericum perforatum)
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Hypericum perforatum, known as perforate St John's-wort, common Saint John's wort and St John's wort, is a flowering plant in the family Hypericaceae. The common name "St John's wort" may be used to refer to any species of the genus Hypericum. Therefore, Hypericum perforatum is sometimes called "common St John's wort" or "perforate St John's wort" to differentiate it. It is a medicinal herb with antidepressant activity and anti-inflammatory propert
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Imperforate St John's-Wort
(Hypericum maculatum)
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Hypericum maculatum Crantz (syn. H. quadrangulum L.; H. dubium Leers; imperforate St John's-wort or spotted St. Johnswort, not to be confused with H. maculatum Walter, syn. H. punctatum Lam.) is a species of perennial herbaceous plant in the genus Hypericum. It is native to Europe and Western Asia. It grows in meadows.
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Spotted St. John's Wort
(Hypericum punctatum)
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Hypericum punctatum, the spotted St. John's wort, is a perennial herb native to North America. The yellow-flowered herb occurs throughout eastern North America into southern Canada. The process of microsporogenesis carried out by this plant is prone to errors in chromosomal segregation. It has a diploid number of 14 or 16. Insects are attracted to the plant's pollen and the hypericin in the plant's leaves is toxic to mammals.
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Shrubby St. John's-Wort
(Hypericum prolificum)
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Hypericum prolificum, known as shrubby St. John's wort, is a deciduous shrub in the genus Hypericum. It was named for its "prolific" number of stamens.
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Dwarf St. John's Wort
(Hypericum mutilum)
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Hypericum mutilum is a species of St. John's wort known by the common name dwarf St. John's wort. It is native to parts of North America, and is present in other parts as an introduced species. It is an annual or perennial herb taking a multibranched erect form up to about 60 centimeters tall. The oval green leaves are one or two centimeters long and are covered in tiny glands. The inflorescence is a compound cyme...
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Fraser's Marsh St. John's-Wort
(Hypericum fraseri)
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Triadenum fraseri, known by the common names bog St. John's wort, Fraser's St. John's wort, and Fraser's marsh St. John's wort, is a perennial flowering plant in the family Hypericaceae that appears natively in New England, northeastern and northcentral United States and lower Canada in wetlands habitats of "bogs, marshes, swales, sedgy meadows, moist sandy (even marly) shores, conifer swamps and alder thickets". It is named after John Fraser (1750–1811), a Scot
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Treble Bar
(Aplocera plagiata)
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The Treble-bar or St. John's Wort Inchworm (Aplocera plagiata) is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found throughout the Palearctic region and the Near East.
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Roundpod St. John's-Wort
(Hypericum cistifolium)
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Virginia Marsh St. John's-Wort
(Hypericum virginicum)
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Triadenum virginicum, the marsh St. Johns-wort or Virginia marsh St. Johnswort, is a species of flowering plant in the family Hypericaceae. It is native to the central and eastern United States and eastern Canada.
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Great St. John's Wort
(Hypericum ascyron)
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Hypericum ascyron, the great St. Johnswort or giant St. John's wort is a wildflower in the genus Hypericum.
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Saint John's Wort Beetle
(Chrysolina hyperici)
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Chrysolina hyperici is a species of beetles of the family Chrysomelidae.
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Small St John's Wort
(Hypericum gramineum)
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Hypericum gramineum, commonly known as small St. John's wort or grassy St. Johnswort, is an erect herb with a height of 10–40 cm. Its flowers are 5–12 mm in diameter. It is native to Australia (wherein it is found in every state and territory), New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and parts of South–East Asia.
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Hairy St John's-Wort
(Hypericum hirsutum)
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Hypericum hirsutum is a flowering plant in the genus Hypericum commonly known as hairy St John's-wort. It is found in Western Europe.
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Sandhill St. John's-Wort
(Hypericum tenuifolium)
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Hypericum tenuifolium, known as Atlantic St. John's-wort and sandhill St. John's-wort, is a species of flowering plant in the St. John's wort family, Hypericaceae. It is native to the Southeastern United States.
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Trailing St John's-Wort
(Hypericum humifusum)
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Hypericum humifusum is a prostrate flowering plant in the genus Hypericum commonly known as trailing St John's-wort. It is found in Western Europe.
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Slender St John's-Wort
(Hypericum pulchrum)
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Hypericum pulchrum is a flowering plant in the genus Hypericum, commonly known as slender St John's-wort. It is native to Western Europe.
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Bog St. John's-Wort
(Hypericum anagalloides)
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Hypericum anagalloides is a species of St. John's wort known by the common names creeping St. John's-wort, tinker's penny and bog St. John's-wort.
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Peelbark St. John's Wort
(Hypericum fasciculatum)
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Hypericum fasciculatum, known as peelbark St. Johnswort or sandweed, is a species of flowering plant in the St. Johnswort family, Hypericaceae, native to the southeastern United States. It is found from eastern North Carolina, south to southern Florida, west to eastern Louisiana. Kew's Plants of the World Online database also notes that it occurs in Cuba, though Cuba is not listed in several other sources. It was first described in 1797 by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.
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Kalm's St. John's-Wort
(Hypericum kalmianum)
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Hypericum kalmianum, commonly called Kalm's St. Johns wort or Kalm's St. Johnswort, is a small, yellow-flowering shrub native to the Great Lakes region in the northern United States and southern Canada. It is in the St. John's wort family, Hypericaceae. Hypericum kalmianum was named after its discoverer, Swedish botanist Pehr Kalm (1715-1779).
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Square Stemmed Saint John's Wort
(Hypericum tetrapterum)
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Hypericum tetrapterum (syn. H. quadrangulum) is a herbaceous perennial plant species in the flowering plant family Hypericaceae. Its common names include St. Peter's wort, Peterwort, square stemmed St. John's wort, and square stalked St. John's wort.
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