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.

Other St.John's-worts

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Stem with 2 ridges; leaves with translucent glands (hold the leaf up to the light); sepals equal; some black glands on petals, sepals and leaves

A photo of the plant in its habitat and confirmation that leaves have translucent glands

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.