It is a small shrub or shrublet that produces yellow flowers with four petals.[5] Individuals are between 3 and 10 decimeters (approximately 1 to 3.3 feet) in height. Leaves range in shape between linear, elliptic, and oblanceolate in shape, and reach a length between 8 and 26 millimeters long.[6]
There are, according to some classifications, 2 subspecies, hypericoides and multicaule. However, the latter of these is usually classified as a separate species, Hypericum stragulum.[7][8]
^Radford, Albert E., Harry E. Ahles, and C. Ritchie Bell. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. 1964, 1968. The University of North Carolina Press. 709-713. Print.
