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Epilobium coloratum ~ cinnamon willow-herb

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Characteristics:
  • OBL
  • Michigan C Value: 3
  • commonly known as "colored Willow-herb" and "purple-leaf Willow-herb"
  • can be nearly 1m tall
  • thin, pink flowers
  • opposite leaves
  • small teeth on leaves
  • irregular, rounded sinuses between teeth
  • main vein is whitish (underside of leaf)
  • 4 pale lavender petals on long ovary (false stalk)
  • long narrow ovaries and seed pods
  • stem is smooth or with minute, incurved hairs
  • seeds are minutely papillose usually very bushy-branched
  • common
  • native
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