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Dwarf Willowherb (Epilobium lamyi)

Description

It is a plant of 30-80 cm., Lying and radicating at the base, glabrescent, of strain emitting elongated stolons, bearing pairs of leaves, fairly firm, of a reddish green; Stem easily compressible, leaning at the top, with 2-4 lines not prominent; Lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate leaves, rounded at the base, weakly denticulate, often glossy, sessile means; Pink flowers, small (5-6 mm in diameter), erect, in loose clusters and poorly furnished; Petals little beyond the calyx; Whole stigma, in clubs; Capsules short, the lower ones opening long before the superiors. The dark spruce grows in the peat bogs, streams of siliceous soils, in almost all Europe.

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum: Magnoliophyta

        • Class: Magnoliopsida

          • Order: Myrtales

            • Family: Onagraceae

              • Genus: Epilobium