Epilobium hornemannii subsp. hornemannii
Family: Onagraceae · Type: perennial · Native
Epilobium hornemannii is a native perennial herb found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, California Rocky Hills, Sierra Nevada, San Bernardino Mountains, San Jacinto Mountains, Warner Mountains, and northern White and Inyo Mountains in moist meadows, streambanks, and subalpine ridges at elevations of 1,200 to 3,900 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces delicate pink to rose-purple (occasionally white) flowers with petals 4 to 11 millimeters long. Growing with loosely clumped, ascending stems 10 to 45 centimeters tall, it has short, leafy stolons and is sparsely hairy in distinct lines. Its leaves are lanceolate to ovate, 15 to 55 millimeters long, with minimal hair coverage and ranging from obtuse to acute with petioles up to 8 millimeters long. The fruit is a slender, hairy capsule 40 to 65 millimeters in length, with seeds approximately 1 millimeter long and covered in tiny papillae.
Habitat: Moist meadows, streambanks, subalpine ridges
Bloom period: Jun-Aug
Elevation: 1200-3900 m
Bioregions: KR, NCoRH, CaRH, SNH, SnBr, SnJt, Wrn, n W&I
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