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Photographer: Kenneth J. Sytsma
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Family Hypericaceae
Triadenum virginicum (L.) Raf.
Virginia marsh St. John's-wort
Triadenum: Greek for "three glands"
virginicum: of Virginia
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 12"-18" tall forb |
| Flower: | pinkish, 5-parted, 1/3"-2/3" wide, sepals tapering to a sharp point; inflorescence a branched, terminal cluster (cyme); blooms July-Aug. |
| Fruit: | cylindrical, 3 chambered, tapering capsule |
| Leaf: | oblong, 2-3 times as long as wide, rounded at the tip, stalkless, dark-dotted below with translucent glands |
| Habitat: | wet; bogs, shallows |
| (Glossary) |
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