Plants : OnagraceaeFerns and Flowering Plants

Epilobium roseum Schreber

Pale Willowherb

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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.