Hypericum lancasteri

Hypericum lancasteri, known as Lancaster's St. John's wort or as zhan e jin si tao in Chinese, is a species of flowering plant in the St. John's wort family Hypericaceae. The species has been awarded the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

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Hypericum lancasteri is a shrub that grows to be up to 1 meter (3 ft 3 in) tall, with branches that are suberect to spreading. Its stems are purple-red and 4-lined, and are somewhat ancipitous when the plant is young, and eventually become terete later on. The internodes grow between 10 and 60 millimeters long, sometimes being shorter than the leaves and sometimes exceeding the leaves. It has reddish-brown bark as it ages. The leaves are petiolate, and their petioles grow between 1–1.5 millimeters long. They have 30–60 lamina that grow 9–30 millimeters long and have laminar glands, dots, and short streaks, but sparse or absent ventral glands. There are typically 1–11 flowers that come from 1–3 nodes that are lax, with relatively stout branches. The species is deciduous. Its flowers are 30–55 mm in diameter and are stellate. They have buds that are oval-shaped and acute. The sepals number 8–11 and grow 3–4 mm long, are free, and are reddish in color. The species' petals are golden yellow, with no tinge of red. There are numerous stamen fascicles, each with about 45–50 stamens, the longest growing 11–16 mm long, with golden yellow anthers of similar shade to the petals. Its seeds dark red-brown and grow 1–1.3 mm long.