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Northern St. John's Wort (Hypericum boreale (Britton) E.P. Bicknell)

Also known as northern st. Johnswort.

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Photo © Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0.

↑Summary

A small, short-lived perennial of wetlands, native to the northeastern US and Canada.

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Legend	Color
Native
Introduced
Native or Not Present
Introduced or Not Present

This tentative map is based on our own research. It may have limited data on Canada and/or Mexico, and there is some subjectivity in our assignment of plants as introduced vs. expanded. Read more in this blog post.

Although this plant occurs somewhere in each of these regions, it may only occur in a small part of some or all of them.

↑Similar Plants

Dwarf St. John's Wort (Hypericum mutilum)
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↑Habitat

Found in a variety of sunny to lightly shaded wetlands, including bogs, marshes, and margins of ponds and streams. In the south of its range it is limited to sinkhole ponds in mountains and interdune depressions along the coast. It is less common in anthropogenic habitats but grows in commercial cranberry bogs and may be spread to new regions with cranberry plants.