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Hypericum androsaemum
Fairly common in Britain.
The flowers are 15–25 mm in diameter and have globe-shaped buds.
The sepals are very unequal in size, about 6–12 mm long by 3–7 mm wide in an egg shape.
The flower petals are a bright golden yellow without the red tinge that is present in the foliage.
They curve inward and have an egg-like shape.
The stamens are arranged in five fascicles of twenty to twenty-five stamens the longest of which are 7–11 mm long.
The ovaries measure 4–5 mm long and 3.5–5 mm wide in the shape of a rough globe.
Flowers from June-August.