Which St John's Wort?

[Rambling Rob]

Hello Cornish-Thyme,

I reckon your photo is of Square-stalked St John's Wort Hypericum tetrapterum, as you say. A couple of days ago I found some of this. Here you can see the square stalks which are also quite noticably winged:



and here, from below, you can see the translucent dots in the leaves too:



Also showing are translucent veins which are very clear in your photo too. One of my floras mentions pellucid ie translucent veins as a feature of Square-stalked St John's Wort.

Pictures not brilliant - it was raining at the time!

Rob

[cornish-thyme]

Thank you for the reassurance Rob....phew i was worried there for a min - i've plenty of flowers yet to photograph and id without beginning to question the ones i've already done!