Hypericum fraseri
species of plant
Triadenum fraseri, commonly known as 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 grows in wetlands of Canada and the northern United States. It is named after John Fraser (1750–1811), a Scottish botanist and widely travelled plant collector.
Description
Triadenum fraseri is a perennial forb that can grow to heights of 1 ft (0.30 m) to 2 ft (0.61 m). The plant has blue-green, sometimes purple-tinged, stalkless, elliptical, opposite leaves that are typically 2.5 in (6.4 cm) long and to 1.75 in (4.4 cm) wide, with prominent, often red stems and veins.
The plant displays clusters of a few to several flowers arising from leaf axils, at the end of branching stems. The pink five-petal flowers with green or purplish sepals that range from 0.25 in (0.64 cm) to 0.75 in (1.9 cm) wide when fully open (but they are rarely open). The flower typically appears closed like a bud.
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