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Photographer: Merel R. Black
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Family Hypericaceae
Triadenum fraseri (Spach) Gleason
bog St. John's-wort, Fraser's marsh St. John's-wort
Triadenum: Greek for "three glands"
fraseri: for John Fraser, Jr. (1789-1861), Scottish collector of N. American plants
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 12"-24" tall forb |
| Flower: | pinkish, 5-parted, 2/3"-3/4" wide, sepals elliptical or oblong; inflorescence a branched, terminal cluster (cyme); blooms July-Aug. |
| Fruit: | oval to cylindrical, 3 chambered, abruptly-narrowing, orange capsule |
| Leaf: | oblong, 2-3 times as long as wide, rounded at the tip, stalkless, dark-dotted below with translucent glands |
| Habitat: | wet; bogs, marshes, shores |
| (Glossary) |
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