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Epilobium latifolium L.

Species

Angiosperms > Myrtales > Onagraceae > Epilobium

Characteristics

A small herb. It grows to 40 cm tall. The leaves are broad and dark green. They are 25-50 mm long. They often have a purplish tinge when grown in the open. The flowers are red-purple and large. They are 25-50 mm wide. Many flowers occur together in a short leafy spike. The fruit is a long narrow capsule. It contains many seeds. Each seed has a tuft of hairs.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.4
Mature height (meter) 0.4
Root system fibrous-root rhizome
Rooting depth (meter) 0.5
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
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Fruit color -
Fruiting months
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a cold temperate plant. It grows in well watered sandy or gravelly floodplain. It grows in arctic and alpine regions. In Pakistan it grows between 2,700-4,850 m altitude. It suits hardiness zones 5-9.
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River gravels, margins of streams and damp slopes. Moist pebble-beds and gravelly banks of streams and brooks, moraines in the polar-arctic and arctic zones.
Light 4-9
Soil humidity 4-7
Soil texture 2-5
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 4-8

Usage

The flowers can be eaten raw in salads. The very young leaves are cooked and eaten. They are often eaten with meat. Leaves are used as a tea substitute.
Uses medicinal tea
Edible flowers leaves shoots stems
Therapeutic use Dermatological Aid (leaf), Eye Medicine (leaf)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 14 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 10 - 15
Germination luminosity light
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

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Distribution

Epilobium latifolium world distribution map, present in Canada, China, Pakistan, and United States of America

Conservation status

Epilobium latifolium threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:92536-2
WFO ID wfo-0000669302
COL ID 7NG25
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Chamerion latifolium Epilobium grandiflorum Chamaenerion halimifolium Chamaenerion latifolium Chamaenerion subdentatum Chamerion subdentatum Epilobium changaicum Epilobium frigidum Epilobium halleri Epilobium humile Epilobium kesamitsui Epilobium latifolium Epilobium rhexiiflorum Epilobium latifolium f. latifolium Epilobium corymbosum Epilobium glaucum Epilobium kamtschaticum Epilobium latifolium f. munzii Epilobium pauciflorum Epilobium venustum Chamaenerion latifolium var. grandiflorum Chamaenerion latifolium var. megalobum Chamaenerion latifolium var. parviflora Epilobium latifolium var. albiflorum Epilobium latifolium var. album Epilobium latifolium subsp. leucanthum Epilobium latifolium var. tetrapetalum Epilobium latifolium f. leucanthum Epilobium latifolium subsp. latifolium Chamaenerion latifolium var. parviflorum
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