This semi-evergreen shrub forms a loose open upright habit with lanced-shaped dark green leaves. The star-shaped flowers are golden yellow and appear in a cluster during early summer.

Hardiness zones 7 to 10

Hypericum pseudohenryi is naturally found at the base of the Himalayas growing in thickets on dry and stony slopes at an altitude of 3,800 m (12,467 ft). It grows in well drained, fertile moist light soilsin an open sunny position and is frost and drought tender.


St John's Wort is a cool climate shrub that is grown for its flowers. It is used as a filler plant in shrub borders for colour or grown as a specimen in a small garden. It is also grown in pots and tubs and is suitable for low-mountain regions. In frost prone areas it is grown as a container plant in a greenhouse and tolerates some shade and is fast growing establishing in one season. ID 120

Hypericum(hi-PER-ree-kum) pseudohenryi(soo-DOH-hen-ree-eye)

Clusiaceae(klu-see--AY-see-ee)
Mangosteen Family