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Virginia marsh St. John's-wort

Hypericum virginicum

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) mikeakresh, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in New York.

United States	2,605
New York	507
Canada	492
New Jersey	486
Massachusetts	321
New Hampshire	308
Ontario	241
Quebec	158
Rhode Island	142
Pennsylvania	132

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

Medicinal useListed as having medicinal use by a harvested source. This is not medical advice.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

Kingdom	Plants · Plantae
Phylum	Vascular Plants · Tracheophyta
Class	Dicots · Magnoliopsida
Order	Nances, Willows, and Allies · Malpighiales
Family	St. John's wort family · Hypericaceae
Genus	St. John's worts · Hypericum

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
Traits: Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species (CC BY 4.0)
How much to rely on each source

Remember the name next time.

Practise Virginia marsh St. John's-wort with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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