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Large widely distributed genus of herbs and subshrubs of especially western North America and Arctic areas
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epilobium
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Epilobium is a genus in the family Onagraceae , containing about 160-200 species of flowering plants with a worldwide distribution. They are generally abundant in the subarctic , temperate and subantarctic regions, whereas in the subtropics and tropics ...
Usage examples of epilobium.
And this brings us to another curious question: the sudden and abundant appearance of plants, like the foxglove and Epilobium angustifolium, in spots where they have never been seen before.
And if you examine heather through a strong magnifying-glass, it is like milk-wort, Epilobium in Latin or a rhododendron, or like an elm tree, which is nothing more nor less than a huge nettle.
At intervals it hands down decrees, declaring that Zauschneria californica (a common plant in rock gardens) is to be known henceforth as Epilobium canum or that Aglaothamnion tenuissimum may now be regarded as conspecific with Aglaothamnion byssoides, but not with Aglaothamnion pseudobyssoides.