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Jepson eFlora: Taxon page
Key to families | Table of families and genera |
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Family: Onagraceae | View Description | Dichotomous Key |
Genus: Epilobium | View Description | Dichotomous Key |
Species: | View Description | Dichotomous Key |
Higher Taxonomy
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Epilobium septentrionale (D.D. Keck) R.N. Bowman & Hoch NATIVE Habit: Perennial herb 0.5--2(3) dm, matted, wiry, scaly proximally, from +- woody caudex, occasionally decumbent, densely white-canescent and nonglandular below inflorescence. Leaf: generally opposite, +- sessile, 10--25 mm, lanceolate to ovate, white-canescent; distal bract-like, +- green, glandular and spreading-hairy. Inflorescence: densely glandular. Flower: red-orange; hypanthium 17--23 mm; sepals 7--12 mm; petals 8--14 mm; stamens << pistil; stigma 4-lobed. Fruit: 20--26 mm, short-beaked, hairy; pedicel 0--2 mm. Seed: 1.8--2.4 mm, low-papillate, hair-tuft deciduous. Chromosomes: 2n=30. Ecology: Dry, sandy or rocky ledges (serpentine slopes); Elevation: 20--1900 m. Bioregional Distribution: NCo, NCoRO. Flowering Time: Jul--Sep Note: Bird-pollinated. Synonyms: Epilobium canum (Greene) P.H. Raven subsp. septentrionale (D.D. Keck) P.H. Raven; Zauschneria septentrionalis D.D. Keck; eFlora Treatment Author: Peter C. Hoch Reference: Raven 1976 Ann Missouri Bot Gard 63:326--340; Wagner et al. 2007 Syst Bot Monogr 83:81--95 Jepson Online Interchange Listed on CNPS Rare Plant Inventory Previous taxon: Epilobium saximontanum Next taxon: Epilobium siskiyouense | ![]() |
Citation for this treatment: Peter C. Hoch 2012, Epilobium septentrionale, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=24397, accessed on April 22, 2018. Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2018, Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 22, 2018.
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