| Epilobium anagallidifolium Lam. | |||
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| Family | Onagraceae — APG family: Onagraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Epilobium alpinum L. | ||
| Description | Plant often reddish, 10-15 cm tall, with decumbent, basal, leafy shoots; leaves short-petiolated, mostly in 2-3 pairs, small, oblong to narrowly elliptic, blunt, en- tire or repand-denticulate; flowers small, mostly 1 or 2, often nodding; petals red- dish-violet to pink; seeds smooth. | ||
| Ecology | Moist places in the mountains to about 2,000 meters. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Some specimens belong to var. pselido-scapdsum (Haussk.) Hult. (E. pseudo- scaposum Haussk.), described from Unalaska, with sessile, more toothed leaves and long-stipitate pods. |
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.