| Plants : Onagraceae | Ferns and Flowering Plants |
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| Epilobium roseum |
Description: An alien willowherb which has been frequent since the 1890s as an urban weed in the Greater Belfast area; very rare elsewhere. It reaches 2 feet in height, has unstalked narrow-oval leaves, four raised lines running down the stem, purple-pink flowers with club-shaped stigma. This species is a native of Great Britain but not Northern Ireland.
All names: Epilobium roseum Schreber
Distribution Map from NBN: Epilobium roseum at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.
iNaturalist: Epilobium roseum at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.
| Hackney, P., 2026. Epilobium roseum. Schreber. [In] Flora of Northern Ireland. https://habitas.org/flora/species.php?item=3556. Accessed on 2026-11-02. |