Epilobium saximontanum

Glandular willowherb

Family: Onagraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Glandular willowherb is a California native perennial found in central Sierra Nevada and eastern Sierra Nevada in moist montane meadows, streambanks, and disturbed roadsides at elevations of 1,400 to 3,500 meters. Flowering from July to September, this plant produces white to pink flowers in delicate clusters with distinctive club-like stigmas. Growing to less than 60 centimeters tall with erect stems that are strigose and glandular, the plant emerges from fleshy, scaly underground shoots. Its leaves are nearly sessile and clasping, ranging from 10 to 65 millimeters long, with narrow elliptic to slightly obovate shapes. The fruit is a slender, hairy capsule measuring 20 to 55 millimeters in length.

Habitat: Moist montane meadows, streambanks, +- disturbed roadsides

Bloom period: Jul-Sep

Elevation: 1400-3500 m

Bioregions: c&amps SNH, SNE

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.