Habit: Annual to shrub, glabrous.
Leaf: sessile
Inflorescence: generally terminal cymes, bracted.
Flower: sepals [4]5; petals [4]5, deciduous or persistent, generally +- yellow; anthers occasionally black-dotted; ovary chambers 1 or 3(5), placentas 3(5), axile or parietal, projecting into chamber.
Species In Genus: +- 450 species: worldwide.
Etymology: (Greek name)
Jepson eFlora Author: Robert E. Preston & Jennifer Talbot
Reference: Robson 2002 Bull Nat Hist Mus London, Bot 32:61--123
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)Key to Hypericum
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