| Family | ONAGRACEAE |
| Genus species | Epilobium latifolium L. |
| Synonyms | Epilobium frigidum Retz. |
| Epilobium grandiflorum Jacquem. | |
| Epilobium halleri Retz. | |
| Habitat | grassland |
| Altitude | arctic-alpine |
| Description | leaves opposite, lanceolate to ovate, 2-6cm, subsessile, glaucous, raceme 3-12-flowered, sepals purple, petals 15-25mm long, style shorter than anthers, glabrous |
| Size | 20-30cm |
| Color | pink, white |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | tuft |
| Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
| Propagation | seed in winter, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 10-16°C division in early spring; cuttings in late summer |
| Territory |
Circumpolar
Europe Northern Europe (Iceland ) Eastern Europe (East European Russia , North European Russia ) Asia-Temperate Siberia (Altay , Buryatiya , Chita , Irkutsk , Krasnoyarsk , Tuva , West Siberia , Yakutskiya ) Russian Far East (Amur , Kamchatka , Khabarovsk , Kuril Is. , Magadan ) Middle Asia (Kazakhstan , Kirgizistan , Tadzhikistan ) Western Asia (Afghanistan ) China (China South-Central , Qinghai , Tibet , Xinjiang ) Mongolia Eastern Asia (Japan ) Asia-Tropical Indian Subcontinent (Pakistan , West Himalaya ) Northern America Subarctic America (Aleutian Is. , Greenland , Nunavut ) Eastern Canada (Québec ) Northwestern U.S.A. (Colorado ) North-Central U.S.A. (South Dakota ) Southwestern U.S.A. (California) |
| Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
| Comments | ONAGRACEAE
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