| Epilobium latifolium L. | |||
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| Family | Onagraceae — APG family: Onagraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Chamaenerion latifolium (L.) Sweet. | ||
| Common name | river beauty | ||
| Description | Stems decumbent, grayish-puberulent, several from woody rootstock; leaves alter- nate, fleshy, glaucous, usually very finely puberulent, elliptic-ovate to lanceolate, blunt or acutish, not veiny; flowers in upper axils; calyx purple-tinged; petals purple or roseate, rarely white; style glabrous, shorter than stamens; stigmas short and thick. | ||
| Ecology | River bars, along streams, scree slopes, in the mountains to at least 2,000 meters. Described from Siberia. | ||
| Uses | The young leaves are eaten raw or boiled by the natives. |
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.