WorldFloraDB - Epilobium gunnianum

Characteristics

Erect perennial 7.5–80 cm high, with many leafy stolons. Stems with a dense close indumentum of curved hairs and with raised lines decurrent from leaf bases. Leaves often rather crowded, opposite below, alternate in upper part of stem, usually ovate to narrowly elliptic or elliptic, 1–6 cm long, with dense small shallow teeth, often undulate, the base tapering or subcordate. Flowers with conspicuous long hairs inside hypanthium. Petals 5.5–17 mm long, usually purplish pink, occasionally pale or white. Capsule 3.5–7.5 cm long with a close partly glandular pubescence; pedicel 0.3–1.5 cm long. Seeds obovoid, 1–1.4 mm long, with a pale cellular rim on adaxial side, comose.

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Erect herb, 7.5-80 cm tall, often much-branched, with numerous leafy stolons. Stems strigillose all round, with elevated lines decurrent from margins of petioles, more densely strigillose in infl. Lamina of lf usually narrowly elliptic or elliptic, rarely lanceolate or narrowly ovate, 1-6 × 0.2-2 cm. Floral tube 1-1.5 mm deep, subglabrous to sparsely strigillose outside, with a conspicuous fringe of erect white hairs inside. Petals bright rose-purple to lilac, sometimes paler or very rarely white, 5.5-17 × 5-10 mm. Capsule densely strigillose and with glandular hairs, 3.5-7.5 cm long; fruiting pedicel 0.3-1.5 cm long. Seeds with conspicuous pale rim.

Life form

perennial

Growth form

herb

Growth support

free-standing

Foliage retention

deciduous

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

-

Spread

-

Mature width (meter)

-

Mature height (meter)

0.08 - 0.8

Root system

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Rooting depth (meter)

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Root diameter (meter)

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Flower color

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

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Fruiting months

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Nitrogen fixer

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Photosynthetic pathway

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Environment

Grows on creek banks and in swampy heath and bogs, usually at high altitudes.

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Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

Uses	-
Edible	-
Therapeutic use	-
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

Mode	-
Germination duration (days)	14 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°)	10 - 15
Germination luminosity	light
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Distribution

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:611898-1
WFO ID	wfo-0000669175
COL ID	6G599
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	-
Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Epilobium gunnianum Epilobium diversifolium

WorldFloraDB 2024

Epilobium gunnianum Hausskn.

Species