Hypericum androsaemum

Spreading, soft-wooded shrub, to c. 80 cm high, usually curry-scented; stems indistinctly 2-ridged. Leaves broadly ovate, 4–15 cm long, 3–8 cm wide, bases usually cordate, lower surface greyish. Flowers in terminal cymes of c. 3–15; sepals unequal, ovate, 4–8 mm long, enlarging somewhat and becoming deflexed in fruit, not black-dotted; petals obovate, c. equal to largest sepal, yellow, not black-dotted; stamens numerous, united at base into 5 bundles, slightly exceeding petals; styles 3, shorter than ovary. Fruit slightly fleshy, tardily dehiscent, globular, c. 1 cm diam., purplish or black; seeds narrowly ovoid, c. 1 mm long, minutely ridged longitudinally, or reticulate. Flowers Oct.–Jan.