_St. John’s-Wort Family_
Herbs in our species with opposite, black-dotted leaves, and cymose
yellow flowers; sepals and petals 5, twisted in the bud; stamens many.
[Sidenote: =Hypericum Scouleri= Hook. _Scouler’s St. John’s-wort._]
Simple or sparingly branched above often with numerous small branchlets
from running rootstocks, 1—2 feet high. Leaves thin, shorter than the
internodes, about an inch long, mostly obtuse, more or less clasping
and usually black-dotted along the margin. Flowers bright orange, ½—1
inch in diameter in more or less panicled cymes, sepals oval or oblong,
much shorter than the petals, stamens numerous in three fascicles.
In moist gravelly soil in the Selkirks at Glacier; flowering in July.