Scientific name: Epilobium montanum L.
Common name: Broad-leaved Willowherb
Description
Habit: Perennial, to 90 cm high.
Stems: Erect, slightly hairy.
Leaves: Opposite, undivided, without stipules, hairless, oval-lanceolate, toothed.
Flowers: Pinkish mauve, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, 8-10 mm across, in loose terminal racemes; buds slightly drooping; calyx 4-lobed; petals 4, often notched; stamens 8; stigma 4-lobed, ovary inferior, very long and narrow.
Fruits: A 4-celled linear capsule, seeds small, each with a tuft of cotton-like hairs.
Habitat: Woods and other shady places, waste ground and as garden weed.Distribution: Frequent but local.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No