Epilobium curtisiae P.H.Raven

Matted perennial, often with ascending stems to c. 15 cm high and with vigorous leafy stolons. Stems with dense or sparse curved hairs. Leaves usually opposite but those of flowering region alternate, elliptic or narrowly so, 0.5–2.5 cm long, shallowly toothed, often undulate, tapering, often abruptly, at base. Flowers with or without a few long hairs inside hypanthium. Petals 3.5–7 mm long, pale purplish pink. Capsule c. 1–2 cm long, with a sparse, close pubescence; pedicel to 3 mm long. Seeds obovoid, 1.3–1.4 mm long, with a pale cellular rim on adaxial side; coma absent.

Grows in moist peaty depressions in grassland.