Hypericum elegansStephan ex Willd.

WFO wfo-0000727585 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Hypericum elegans, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. a Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-10 / obs. 142420800
Hypericum elegans, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. b Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 137729959
Hypericum elegans, photographed by Anna Petrosyan
fig. c Anna Petrosyan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163781407
Hypericum elegans, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. d Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115648831
Hypericum elegans, photographed by Alexander Dubynin
fig. e Alexander Dubynin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 78902429
Hypericum elegans, photographed by Alexander Dubynin
fig. f Alexander Dubynin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 78898658
Hypericum elegans, photographed by Елена Патерикина
fig. g Елена Патерикина, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107442628
Hypericum elegans, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. h Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 148770526

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Hypericum elegans is native: Altay, Krasnoyarsk, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, West Siberia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, Germany, Hungary, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Ukraine AltayKrasnoyarskNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeWest SiberiaBelarusBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaEast European RussiaGermanyHungaryNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSouth European RussiaUkraine
Native distribution of Hypericum elegans, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Belarus BLR EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
East European Russia RUE
Germany GER
Hungary HUN
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Ukraine UKR
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Krasnoyarsk KRA
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
West Siberia WSB

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 395 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -19.8 °C -9.9 °C -2.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 22.3 °C 24.7 °C 28.1 °C
Annual rainfall 430 mm 549 mm 778 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 53 mm 96 mm 128 mm

It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 395 research-grade observations of Hypericum elegans that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 9 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Hypericopsis elegans (Stephan ex Willd.) Opiz
  • Hypericum anagallidifolium C.Presl
  • Hypericum elegans var. elegans
  • Hypericum elegans var. genuinum Gușul.
  • Hypericum elegans var. pectinatum Čelak.
  • Hypericum elegans var. stepposum Săvul. & Rayss
  • Hypericum hyssopifolium var. pauciglandulosum Choisy
  • Hypericum kohlianum Spreng.
  • Hypericum kotoliani Bellardi ex Colla

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.