| Epilobium angustifolium L. | |||
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| Family | Onagraceae — APG family: Onagraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Chamaenerion angustifolium (L.) Scop., Epilobium spicatum Lam. | ||
| Common name | fireweed | ||
| Description | Stem tall, simple, densely leafy, from underground, woody rootstocks; leaves alternate, lanceolate, acute, glabrous, paler and distinctly veined beneath; flowers in long, terminal racemes, flowering from base; sepals pubescent, more or less red- colored; petals large, obovate, clawed, normally lilac-purple but exceptionally white; style pubescent at base; stigmas elongate, soon revolute; capsules long, canescent. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows, forests, river bars, burned areas. Described from northern Europe. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Spemmens with white petals and sepals, white petals and red sepals, pink petals and darker sepals, dark bluish-purple petals and darker sepals, even striate or dark- veined petals or sepals, rarely occur. | ||
| Uses | Marrow eaten by natives and leaves used as substitute for tea in Russia (Kurilski Chai). The root is also eaten raw by the Siberian Eskimo. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.