Matted hypericum, Japanese St John's wort


Scientific Name

Hypericum japonicum Thunb.


Other Names

Yurile jhaar


Life Form

Herb


Family

Hypericaceae



Yurile jhaar
Image by - Saroj Kasaju
Usages

Ornamental - It is used as an ornamental plant in gardens. Its dense and bushy habit makes it an ideal ground cover plant. Medicine - It is used in the treatment of dysentery, acute hepatitis, pain in the liver region, appendicitis, boils and abscesses.


Native to

Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal


Habitat

Temperate biome


Conservation Status

Not evaluated



Plant Description

Annual herb 40cm tall.

Leaves are simple, not lobed or divided, opposite, stalkless, ovate, less than 2 cm long/wide, hairless on both sides, dots present, margin entire, tip blunt, base heart-shaped, parallel-veined.

Flowers are bisexual, grouped in a terminal one to few-flowered cyme, stalked. Flowers 4-8 mm across, stellate. Buds are cylindric-ellipsoid, tip obtuse. Sepals are free, erect, narrowly oblong or rarely lanceolate to elliptic, subequal to unequal, 2-5.5 × 0.5-2 mm; laminar glands lines, distally dots; marginal glands absent; apex acute or obtuse to rounded; veins 3-5.

The fruit is a dry capsule that splits open when mature, releasing seeds.Up to 7 mm (0.3 inches) long.


Phenology

Flowering: November- Februrary.