Perforate St John's-wort - Hypericum perforatum

Short to tall, hairless, erect plant. Stems round with 2 raised lines, spreading and rooting at the base. Leaves opposite, linear to oval, unstalked, with large translucent dots. Flowers yellow, 18 to 22 mm in broad panicles, the petals with numerous black dots, mostly around the edges. Sepals narrow, with or without black glands, much shorter than the petals.

See our St John's Wort ID Guide.

Rough grassland, road verges and hedgebanks.

May to September.

Perennial.

Common throughout much of Britain, but rare in central and northern Scotland.

Common in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 305 of the 617 tetrads.