Epilobium anagallidifolium, July 21, 2021
Common & scientific name
Alpine willowherb, Epilobium anagallidifolium
Family
Evening primrose, Onograceae
Location
Linkins Lake Trailhead, 11,500’
Fun, weird, helpful, or little known fact
Epilobiums are notoriously difficult to tell apart, as they often are found in the same areas (near water in the subalpine and alpine), but this ones flowers are always nodding, as seen in the photo, and its leaves don’t have teeth. Like all members of the Evening primrose family (and the Mustard family), it has four petals, here rosy.
A lovely, delicate plant almost always found streamside, or in mossy areas like those below, and often in the company of the next, equally lovely and delicate plant, Micranthes odontoloma, Brook saxifrage.