Family | ONAGRACEAE |
Genus species | Epilobium confertifolium Hook.f. |
Synonyms | Epilobium dawbinii Allan |
Epilobium findlayi Allan | |
Habitat | rocky slopes |
Altitude | 0-600m |
Description | glabrous, rooting, leaves opposite, subsessile, nitid, bright green, elliptic, acute, minutely serrate, flowers solitary, erect, sepals glabrous, petals 2-6mm, sinuate |
Size | 2-18cm |
Color | bright pink-purple |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | carpet |
Cultivation | rock crevices with favourable water regime, eastern slopes alpine house, poor, drained 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 |
Australasia
New Zealand (Antipodean Is.) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | ONAGRACEAE
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