St John's Wort (Hypericum spp) is a pretty perennial shrub, typically with bright yellow flowers followed by distinctive clusters of berries. There are hundreds of species, some with medicinal ...

Do you have an area in your yard that would benefit from a fast-spreading ground cover that's also shaded for part of the day? While there are plenty of ground cover plants that love shade, there's ...

Hypericums all have bright golden yellow flowers of a distinctive angled shape, and they have a great habit of flowering over a long period. The hypericum best known in gardens is the tall shrub ...

Most gardeners know hypericumas a groundcover that is commonly called creeping St. John’s wort or Aaron’s beard. Native to Turkey and Bulgaria, this species, Hypericum calycinum, is a semi-evergreen ...

- creeping evergreen shrub with bright yellow star-shaped summer flowers; useful as ground cover ...

Talk about multi-tasking. A new study reveals that in the St. John's Wort plant, Hypericum calycinum, the same chemical not only attracts pollinating insects but also deters herbivores that pose a ...

Q: The bank in front of our house has always been covered in St. John’s wort. Loved it … but suddenly a couple of years ago, it was overcome with rust. Is there a solution? A: Hypericum rust moved ...