Epilobium minutum
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Epilobium minutum is a species of flowering plant, known by the common names little willowherb, chaparral willowherb and desert willowherb, in the family Onagraceae.[1][2][3] It is also called "smallflower willowherb" in reference to its relatively small size. However that name, in particular the British English variant "small-flowered willowherb", typically refers to Epilobium parviflorum.
This annual wildflower is native to western North America from British Columbia and Alberta to California and Arizona. This is a plant of fields and meadows, including vernal pools, and it is one of the first flowers to spring up in areas recently cleared by wildfire.
Description
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- Epilobium
- Flora of Western Canada
- Flora of the Northwestern United States
- Flora of Arizona
- Flora of Nevada
- Flora of Oregon
- Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
- Flora of California
- Flora without expected TNC conservation status
- Taxa named by Johann Georg Christian Lehmann