Onagraceae FAMILY

Epilobium latifolium

Edibility

3/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Epilobium latifolium is a herbaceous perennial plant growing from a thick, rhizomatous rootstock. It produces a clump of several erect to ascending stems that can be branched or unbranched and are more or less woody at the base; it can grow around 10 - 50cm tall[ 74 Title Flora of the USSR. Publication Author Komarov. V. L. Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Publisher Israel Program for Scientific Translation Year 1968 ISBN - Description An immense (25 or more large volumes) and not yet completed translation of the Russian flora. Full of information on plant uses and habitats but heavy going for casual readers. It can be downloaded from the Internet. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food and medicine

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate

Native RangeTemperate Eurasia from northeast Europe to the Himalayas, east to Russian Far East and Japan; Northern N. America - Nunavut, Quebec and Greenlnd

HabitatRiver gravels, margins of streams and damp slopes[ 43 Title Gray's Manual of Botany.Eighth Edition Publication Author Fernald. M. L. Publisher American Book Co.; New York Year 1950 ISBN 0442222505 Description A bit dated but a good and concise flora of the eastern part of N. America. ]. Moist pebble-beds and gravelly banks of streams and brooks, moraines in the polar-arctic and arctic zones[ 74 Title Flora of the USSR. Publication Author Komarov. V. L. Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Publisher Israel Program for Scientific Translation Year 1968 ISBN - Description An immense (25 or more large volumes) and not yet completed translation of the Russian flora. Full of information on plant uses and habitats but heavy going for casual readers. It can be downloaded from the Internet. ].