Seasonal Wild Flowers

Broad-leaved Willowherb

Epilobium montanum

Onagraceae

June to September

It is found throughout the country.

See the BSBI distribution map for Broad-leaved Willowherb

It grows in gardens (a weed) and waste ground, at the base of

walls and fences, and on hedge banks and shady rocky places.

Broad-leaved Willowherb is a native, stoloniferous, perennial

herb, growing up to 60cm.

The flowers are pale rose and in drooping flowerheads.

There are 4 veined and deeply cleft petals.

There is a 4-lobed stigma, which is slighly shorter than the

longer of the 2 sets of stamens.

Immature stigmas and anthers are fluffy and white.

Sepals are sharply pointed and purple.

The leaves are broadly lanceolate and irregularly toothed.

Bracts are similar in shape, toothed and smaller than the leaves.

The stem is rounded, reddish and covered in small hairs.

The plumed seeds are spread by the wind.

Broad-leaved Willowherb - drooping flower head

4-lobed stigma, short and long stamens

Pointed, purple sepals

Rows of plumed seeds

Broad leaves and red, downy stem