Epilobium ciliatum

Fringed willowherb

Family: Onagraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Fringed willowherb is a California native perennial found in diverse habitats across North American mountain and foothill regions. Flowering from June to September, this plant produces delicate white to rose-purple flowers in small clusters with distinctive petals. Growing with erect stems 30 to 60 centimeters tall, the plant forms loose clumps and has a strigose (lined hair) texture that becomes more glandular toward the stem tips. Its leaves are narrowly lanceolate to ovate, 1 to 12 centimeters long with fine teeth and conspicuous veins, arranged with short petioles. The plant produces slender fruit capsules 15 to 100 millimeters long that are covered in fine hairs.

California counties: Ventura, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Kern, Plumas, Inyo, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Riverside, Orange, Fresno, Mono, Monterey, Trinity, San Luis Obispo, Del Norte, El Dorado, Mendocino, Napa, San Mateo, Siskiyou, Placer, Amador, Calaveras, Alpine, Nevada, Sacramento, Humboldt, Contra Costa, Marin, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Madera, Sonoma, Mariposa, Tehama, Tuolumne, Yolo, Lake, San Joaquin, Colusa, Tulare, Alameda

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