diff --git a/src/core/qgsfield.cpp b/src/core/qgsfield.cpp
index 69deedd2f4a..14f8ceca42d 100644
--- a/src/core/qgsfield.cpp
+++ b/src/core/qgsfield.cpp
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ QString QgsField::displayString( const QVariant &v ) const
     if ( ok )
       return QLocale().toString( converted );
   }
-  else if ( d->typeName == QLatin1String( "json" ) || d->typeName == QLatin1String( "jsonb" ) )
+  else if ( d->typeName == QLatin1String( "json" ) || d->typeName == QLatin1String( "jsonb" ) || d->typeName == QLatin1String( "JSON" ) )
   {
     QJsonDocument doc = QJsonDocument::fromVariant( v );
     return QString::fromUtf8( doc.toJson().data() );
diff --git a/src/core/qgsogrutils.cpp b/src/core/qgsogrutils.cpp
index addcc7ee8fc..9b586ad2ea7 100644
--- a/src/core/qgsogrutils.cpp
+++ b/src/core/qgsogrutils.cpp
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 #include <QTextCodec>
 #include <QUuid>
 #include <cpl_error.h>
+#include <QJsonDocument>
 
 // Starting with GDAL 2.2, there are 2 concepts: unset fields and null fields
 // whereas previously there was only unset fields. For QGIS purposes, both
@@ -236,6 +237,16 @@ QVariant QgsOgrUtils::getOgrFeatureAttribute( OGRFeatureH ogrFet, const QgsField
         break;
       }
 
+      case QVariant::Map:
+      {
+        //it has to be JSON
+        //it's null if no json format
+        if ( encoding )
+          value = QJsonDocument::fromJson( encoding->toUnicode( OGR_F_GetFieldAsString( ogrFet, attIndex ) ).toUtf8() ).toVariant();
+        else
+          value = QJsonDocument::fromJson( QString::fromUtf8( OGR_F_GetFieldAsString( ogrFet, attIndex ) ).toUtf8() ).toVariant();
+        break;
+      }
       default:
         Q_ASSERT_X( false, "QgsOgrUtils::getOgrFeatureAttribute", "unsupported field type" );
         if ( ok )
diff --git a/src/providers/ogr/qgsogrprovider.cpp b/src/providers/ogr/qgsogrprovider.cpp
index 7c069a51ce5..dddc22cd54e 100644
--- a/src/providers/ogr/qgsogrprovider.cpp
+++ b/src/providers/ogr/qgsogrprovider.cpp
@@ -470,7 +470,8 @@ QgsOgrProvider::QgsOgrProvider( QString const &uri, const ProviderOptions &optio
       << QgsVectorDataProvider::NativeType( tr( "Whole number (integer)" ), QStringLiteral( "integer" ), QVariant::Int, 0, nMaxIntLen )
       << QgsVectorDataProvider::NativeType( tr( "Whole number (integer 64 bit)" ), QStringLiteral( "integer64" ), QVariant::LongLong, 0, nMaxInt64Len )
       << QgsVectorDataProvider::NativeType( tr( "Decimal number (real)" ), QStringLiteral( "double" ), QVariant::Double, 0, nMaxDoubleLen, 0, nMaxDoublePrec )
-      << QgsVectorDataProvider::NativeType( tr( "Text (string)" ), QStringLiteral( "string" ), QVariant::String, 0, 65535 );
+      << QgsVectorDataProvider::NativeType( tr( "Text (string)" ), QStringLiteral( "string" ), QVariant::String, 0, 65535 )
+      << QgsVectorDataProvider::NativeType( tr( "Map (json)" ), QStringLiteral( "json" ), QVariant::Map, -1, -1, -1, -1, QVariant::String );
 
   bool supportsDate = true;
   bool supportsTime = mGDALDriverName != QLatin1String( "ESRI Shapefile" ) && mGDALDriverName != QLatin1String( "GPKG" );
@@ -1009,6 +1010,7 @@ void QgsOgrProvider::loadFields()
     OGRFieldSubType ogrSubType = OFSTNone;
 
     QVariant::Type varType;
+    QVariant::Type varSubType;
     switch ( ogrType )
     {
       case OFTInteger:
@@ -1041,6 +1043,18 @@ void QgsOgrProvider::loadFields()
         break;
 
       case OFTString:
+        if ( OGR_Fld_GetSubType( fldDef ) == OFSTJSON )
+        {
+          ogrSubType = OFSTJSON;
+          QgsDebugMsg( QStringLiteral( "JSON Field found" ) );
+          varType = QVariant::Map;
+          varSubType = QVariant::String;
+        }
+        else
+        {
+          varType = QVariant::String;
+        }
+        break;
       default:
         varType = QVariant::String; // other unsupported, leave it as a string
     }
@@ -1081,7 +1095,7 @@ void QgsOgrProvider::loadFields()
 #else
                           textEncoding()->toUnicode( typeName.toStdString().c_str() ),
 #endif
-                          width, prec
+                          width, prec, QString(), varSubType
                         );
 
     // check if field is nullable