Scientific name: Epilobium obscurum Schreb.
Common name: Short-fruited Willowherb
Description
Habit: Perennial, to 60 cm high.
Stems: Erect, branched, with short and leafy stolons; with 2 or 4 ridges running down from the leaf base.
Leaves: Opposite, without stipules, hairless, stalkless, undivided, oblong-lanceolate, toothed.
Flowers: Pale pink, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, 6-8 mm across, in loose terminal racemes; calyx 4-lobed; petals 4, often notched; stamens 8; stigma not 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: Roadsides, walls, marshes, damp waste places.Distribution: Very rare in the Burren, frequent to abundant elsewhere.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No