Family | ONAGRACEAE |
Genus species | Epilobium arcticum Sam. |
Bibliography | Bot. Not. 1922: 260 (1922) |
Native Range | Subarctic |
Primary Biome | Subarctic |
Habitat | tundra |
Altitude | 50-500m |
Description | leaves in rosette, broadly ovate to spathulate, 1-2cm, stem leaves subsessile, obovate to linear, obtuse, glabrous, raceme few flowered, flowers pendent, petals 2-5mm |
Size | 5-20cm |
Color | white |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
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 |
Synonyms | Epilobium davuricum var. arcticum (Sam.) Polunin Epilobium davuricum ssp. arcticum (Sam.) P.H.Raven |
Territory | 0 Circumpolar 1 Europe 14 Eastern Europe (RUN North European Russia) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (KRA Krasnoyarsk, WSB West Siberia, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (MAG Magadan) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ASK Alaska, GNL Greenland, NUN Nunavut, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) 72 Eastern Canada (QUE Québec) |