Hypericum maculatumCrantz

spotted St. Johnswort

WFO wfo-0000727911 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Hypericum maculatum, photographed by Anastasia_Surkova
fig. a Anastasia_Surkova, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205904978

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Native range 32 botanical countries

Regions where Hypericum maculatum is native: Krasnoyarsk, West Siberia, Albania, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, Føroyar, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine KrasnoyarskWest SiberiaAlbaniaAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBelgiumBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkEast European RussiaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryIrelandItalyNetherlandsNorthwest European RussiaNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSouth European RussiaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandUkraine Føroyar
Native distribution of Hypericum maculatum, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
East European Russia RUE
Finland FIN
Føroyar FOR
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Ireland IRE
Italy ITA
Netherlands NET
Northwest European Russia RUW
Norway NOR
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR
Krasnoyarsk KRA ASIA-TEMPERATE
West Siberia WSB

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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.

Flowering 509 in flower of 596 examined

Proportion of examined Hypericum maculatum in flower, by month
Month In flower Examined Share 95% interval
Jan 0 0 too few examined
Feb 0 0 too few examined
Mar 0 0 too few examined
Apr 0 3 too few examined
May 0 12 0% 0% to 24%
Jun 57 79 72% 61% to 81%
Jul 279 292 96% 93% to 97%
Aug 153 174 88% 82% to 92%
Sep 18 31 58% 41% to 74%
Oct 2 4 too few examined
Nov 0 1 too few examined
Dec 0 0 too few examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Hypericum maculatum observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 509 of 596 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 2,030 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -16.9 °C -10.8 °C -3.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 16.3 °C 22.2 °C 23.7 °C
Annual rainfall 563 mm 707 mm 1,702 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 86 mm 111 mm 280 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 2,030 research-grade observations of Hypericum maculatum 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. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 49 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.

  • Holosepalum dubium (Leers) Fourr.
  • Hypericum acutum var. imperforatum (Bonnet) Rouy
  • Hypericum commutatum Nolte
  • Hypericum delphinense Vill.
  • Hypericum desetangsii var. imperforatum Bonnet
  • Hypericum dubium Leers
  • Hypericum dubium var. genuinum Syme
  • Hypericum dubium var. perforatum (Tourlet) Pugsley
  • Hypericum fallax Grimm
  • Hypericum fallax f. punctatum O.Schwarz
  • Hypericum fallax subsp. fallax
  • Hypericum fallax subsp. immaculatum (Murb.) O.Schwarz
  • Hypericum fallax var. fallax
  • Hypericum immaculatum (Murb.) C.D.Chase & Cernjavski
  • Hypericum leersii C.C.Gmel.
  • Hypericum maculatum f. latisepalum A.Fröhl.
  • Hypericum maculatum f. luteum A.Fröhl.
  • Hypericum maculatum f. punctatum (Schinz) Stjepanovic-Veselicic
  • Hypericum maculatum subf. lucidum A.Fröhl.
  • Hypericum maculatum subf. nigrum A.Fröhl.
  • Hypericum maculatum subsp. eumaculatum Schinz & Thell.
  • Hypericum maculatum subsp. genuinum (Schinz) A.Fröhl.
  • Hypericum maculatum subsp. styriacum A.Fröhl.
  • Hypericum maculatum subsp. typicum A.Fröhl.

and 25 more.

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.