Hypericum pulchrum L.

Perennial herb, (0.03–)0.1–0.9 m tall, glabrous, erect to decumbent from slender taproot, not rooting or rarely procumbent and rooting (f. procumbens), sometimes budding from roots, usually with short branches at all nodes. Stems 2-lined to subterete, often reddish, eglandular; internodes (5–)15–90 mm, exceeding leaves. Leaves (main stem) sessile,  glaucous beneath, subcoriaceous; lamina 6–20 × 3.5–13 mm, triangular-ovate to broadly ovate, apex rounded, margin recurved, base cordate-amplexicaul to truncate (branch leaves smaller, ovate to oblong, truncate and sessile to broadly cuneate and up to 0.2 mm petiolate), with 4–5 pairs of lateral veins from near base; laminar glands small, punctiform,  dense, mostly peripheral, without apical black gland; inframarginal glands pale spaced. Inflorescence 1–c. 35 –flowered, from up to 7 nodes, strictly cylindric to narrowly and laxly pyramidal, with lateral cymules 1–5-flowered, without or with up to 4 pairs of flowering branches below; bracts and bracteoles ovate to elliptic, entire. Flowers 10–20 mm in diam., petals erect after flowering; buds ellipsoid-subglobose. Sepals unequal to subequal, up to 1/3 united, not imbricate, 3–3.5 × 1–2 mm, obovate-spathulate to elliptic or oblong, obtuse to rounded; veins 5(–7), not prominent; margin with globose black glands, sessile or subsessile; laminar glands pale, linear or distally punctiform. Petals chrome yellow or rarely pale yellow to cream, tinged red, 8–9 × (2–)3–4 mm, 2.5–3 × sepals, oblong-elliptic; marginal glands black, distal, sessile or on short cilia, and one larger apical, sessile or immersed; laminar glands pale, punctiform, few. Stamens 20–30, longest 7–8 mm; filaments yellow; anthers orange to reddish-pink. Ovary 2.5 × 1.5 mm, ovoid-pyramidal; styles 3.5–4 mm, 1.4–1.6 × ovary. Capsule 6–9 × 3.5–5 mm, broadly ovoid-ellipsoid. Seeds reddish-brown, 0.8–1 mm long; testa rugulose.