Irish wildflowers BSBI map

New Zealand Willowherb, Epilobium brunnescens, Saileachán sraoilleach
Photographs: Co. Cork

New Zealand Willowherb
Epilobium brunnescens
Saileachán sraoilleach
Family: Onagraceae

Flowering time: May-October. Perennial. Introduced.

Pale pink or white flowers on long, slender stalks followed by long seed pods. Small circular-oval leaves, opposite, stalked and usually green with purplish undersides, sometimes bronzy-coloured. Only the central vein is clearly indented. A low-growing spreading plant, stems rooting at nodes

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

Similar: Bronzy Willowherb (Epilobium komarovianum) Leaves more circular with distinctive net-like veining on upper surfaces.

New Zealand Willowherb, Epilobium brunnescens, Saileachán sraoilleach

New Zealand Willowherb, Epilobium brunnescens, Saileachán sraoilleach
New Zealand Willowherb, Epilobium brunnescens, Saileachán sraoilleach

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