Epilobium glaberrimum

Glaucous willow herb

Family: Onagraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Glaucous willow herb is a California native perennial found in various mountain ranges and alpine regions at elevations ranging from 1,500 to 3,500 meters. Flowering from July to September, this plant produces delicate pink to rose-purple (occasionally white) flowers with a broadly club-like stigma. Growing with ascending stems 20 to 50 centimeters tall, it forms clumped clusters with short, scaly stolons and appears glaucous and nearly hairless. Its leaves are narrowly lanceolate to narrowly ovate, clasping the stem and appearing nearly sessile. The fruit is occasionally sparsely hairy, with seeds featuring a distinctive papillate texture.

California counties: Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Siskiyou, Riverside, Fresno, Mono, Mariposa, Ventura, Tulare, Inyo, Placer, Shasta, Butte, Plumas, Trinity, Humboldt, Del Norte, Mendocino, Sierra, El Dorado, Madera, Nevada, Alpine, Santa Barbara, Kern, Tuolumne, Modoc

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