Hypericum japonica
is an annual,
15-40cm in height herb found in paddies, paths, or ridges between
rice fields, wetlands in the areas, etc. Stems, four ridged, are
slim but robust, erect or falling, branching, then getting up until
making acute angles with perpendicular lines. Leaves are
bluish-green, texture thin, triangular in a broad ovate way or
oblong, rising diagonally upward, bases being orbicular, generally
embracing the stems. Flowers, yellow,1-30 in number, each 6-8mm
across, set themselves in cymose inflorescences. Bloom time:
July-August. |