Epilobium roseum

SPECIES

1. KingdomPlantae
2. PhylumTracheophyta
3. ClassMagnoliopsida
4. OrderMyrtales
5. FamilyOnagraceae

Observations recorded52,382

Herbs erect, perennial, with fleshy elongated turions that leave leathery, obovate scales, rarely forming thin stolons. Stems 10-50 cm tall, simple or branched, strigillose usually mixed with glandular hairs throughout upper stem, glabrescent below, with 2 or 4 raised strigillose lines decurrent from margins of petioles. Leaves subsessile or petioles 2-10(-15) mm; cauline blade elliptic to oblong or lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 2.2-6 × 0.8-2.5 cm, subglabrous with strigillose margin and veins adaxially, base cuneate to rounded or subcordate, margin denticulate with 9-45 teeth per side, apex subobtuse to acute. Inflorescence and flowers erect. Sepals 3.5-5 mm. Petals pink to rose-purple, 5-8 mm. Stigma clavate to subcapitate, entire. Capsules 3-6 cm, strigillose and glandular pubescent; pedicels 0.6-1.5 cm. Seeds dark brown, 1-1.2 mm, papillose, with inconspicuous chalazal collar; coma white, detaching easily. 2n = 36.

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Specimen records

2,117

With media

1,260

Family

Onagraceae

Collections

NY, BRIT, US, USU, CHAS, CM

Recorded in

United States, Pakistan, France, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Sweden

Wikidata facts

Instance of

taxon

Parent taxon

Epilobium

Image

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