Family | ONAGRACEAE |
Genus species | Epilobium confertifolium Hook.f. |
Bibliography | Hooker´s Icon. Pl. 7: t. 685 (1844) |
Native Range | Antipodean Islands |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
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 | subshrub |
Cultivation | sunny rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in winter, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 10-16°C cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Epilobium dawbinii Allan Epilobium findlayi Allan Epilobium findlayi var. pubescens Allan |
Territory | 5 Australasia 51 New Zealand (ATP Antipodean Is.) |