Family: Onagraceae,
Evening Primrose
Genus: Epilobium
Description
General: perennial, spreading by rhizomes and stolons.
Stems with creeping bases, becoming erect, usually simple
but occasionally with a few basal branches, 15-30 cm tall,
mostly hairless below and crisp-hairy in lines above, but
usually glandular-short-hairy in the flower cluster.
 Leaves: opposite, ovate to lanceolate, 1.5-5 cm long,
usually about equally spaced, stalkless to short-stalked,
entire or with few, shallow teeth.
 Flowers: deep pink or lilac-rose, with 4 notched petals,
5-8 mm long. Few flowers on stem tops, nodding to erect,
on stalks 0.5-5 cm long. Sepals 1.5-6 mm long, hypanthium
1-2 mm long, stigma entire.
Flowering time: June-September.
 Fruits: linear capsules, 3-5 cm long. Seeds about 1 mm
long, covered with tiny bumps, the hair tuft dirty white.
Distribution
Moist banks and rocks, talus slopes, and mountain
meadows, often above timber line, in w. and c. parts of MT.
Also from AK to CA and CO. |
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