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New Zealand Willowherb
Epilobium brunnescens
Saileachán sraoilleach
Family: Onagraceae

Flowering time: May-October. Perennial. Introduced.

Pale pink or white flowers on long, slender, erect stalks. Very long, slender seedpods. Small circular-oval leaves, opposite, stalked. Usually green with purplish undersides, sometimes bronzy-coloured. Only central vein clearly indented. Very low-growing spreading plant with stems rooting at nodes.

Damp, stony, open ground. Paths, forestry tracks, stream-sides. Introduced from New Zealand, now naturalised and spreading.
     



Above: New Zealand Willowherb. Ballingeary, Co.Cork. July 2007

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