- Family : ONAGRACEAE
(Evening-Primrose Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : OENOTHERA FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Onagraceae
- Synonym(s) : Chamaenerion angustifolium (L.) Scop.; Chamaenerion angustifolium var. abbreviatum Lunell; Chamaenerion angustifolium var. album Yue Zhang & J.Y.Ma; Chamaenerion angustifolium var. karsianum Tzvelev; Chamaenerion angustifolium f. leiostylum Berlin; Chamaenerion angustifolium var. macranthum Malyschev; Chamaenerion angustifolium f. pubescens (Hausskn.) Kitag.; Chamaenerion angustifolium var. pubescens (Hausskn.) Tzvelev; Chamaenerion angustifolium var. spectabile Simmons; Chamaenerion denticulatum Schur; Chamaenerion spicatum (Lam.) Gray; Chamaenerion spicatum f. alba Cockerell; Chamerion angustifolium (L.) Holub; Epilobium angustifolium var. abbreviatum (Lunell) Munz; Epilobium angustifolium f. albiflorum E.L.Rand & Redfield; Epilobium angustifolium var. album G.Don; Epilobium angustifolium f. pubescens Hausskn.; Epilobium angustifolium f. spectabile (Simmons) Fernald; Epilobium antonianum Pers.; Epilobium brachycarpum Leight.; Epilobium difforme Gilib.; Epilobium elatum Munro ex Hausskn.; Epilobium gesneri Vill.; Epilobium gracile Brügger; Epilobium latifolium F.W.Schmidt; Epilobium latifolium Matt.; Epilobium leiostylon Peterm.; Epilobium macrocarpum Stephan; Epilobium montanum Hacq.; Epilobium neriifolium H.Lév.; Epilobium persicifolium Vill.; Epilobium rubrum Lucé; Epilobium salicifolium Stokes; Epilobium spicatum Lam.; Epilobium spicatum f. albiflorum Britton; Epilobium spicatum var. leucanthemum Wender.; Epilobium variabile Lucé; Epilobium verticillatum Ten.; Pyrogennema angustifolium (L.) Lunell; Pyrogennema angustifolium var. abbreviatum (Lunell) Lunell
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Epilobium angustifolium L.
- Common name : Rosebay willowherb, Saint Anthony's Laurel, Great willowherb
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Widespread in open, disturbed montane areas, 2800 - 4000 m. altitude
- Comments / notes : Extremely variable species.
- Flower, Fruit : July-September
- Distribution :
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : East Sikkim (Gangtok) district
- Himachal Pradesh : Chamba district, Kinnaur district, Lahaul & Spiti district
- Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Afghanistan, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Aleutian Islands, Altay, Amur, Arizona, Arkansas, Austria, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bhutan, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, California, Central European Russia, China, Chita, Colorado, Conn
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Afghanistan, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Aleutian Islands, Altay, Amur, Arizona, Arkansas, Austria, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bhutan, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, California, Central European Russia, China, Chita, Colorado, Connecticut, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Delaware, Denmark, District of Columbia, East European Russia, Finland, France, Føroyar, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Idaho, Illinois, India, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Kuril Islands, Labrador, Lebanon-Syria, Magadan, Maine, Manchuria, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico, Michigan, Minnesota, Mongolia, Montana, Morocco, Myanmar, Nebraska, Nepal, Netherlands, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Newfoundland, North Carolina, North Caucasus, North Dakota, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Northwest Territories, Norway, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Pennsylvania, Poland, Primorye, Prince Edward Island, Qinghai, Québec, Rhode Island, Romania, Sakhalin, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, South European Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Tennessee, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Tuva, Ukraine, Utah, Uzbekistan, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Siberia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yugoslavia, Yukon
- Literature :
- Uniyal B.P., Sharma J.R., Choudhery U., Singh D.K. (2007). Flowering Plants of Uttarakhand: A Checklist. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh: 133
- GRIERSON A.J.C. & LONG D.G. (1983). FLORA OF BHUTAN INCLUDING A RECORD OF PLANTS FROM SIKKIM Vol. 2: Part 1. ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, EDINBURGH: 316-317
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Flora of Himachal Pradesh. Volume 1, Botanical Survey of India, 1984. Pg.: 293
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Epilobium angustifolium. Downloaded on 1 April 2025.
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