Epilobium tetragonum L., 1753
🇬🇧 Square-stalked Willowherb
🇫🇷 Épilobe à quatre angles, Épilobe à tige carrée, Épilobe tétragone
Taxonomy
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Clade: Tracheophytes
- Clade: Angiosperms
- Clade: Eudicots
- Clade: Superrosids
- Clade: Rosids
- Clade: Malvids
- Order: Myrtales
- Family: Onagraceae
- Subfamily: Onagroideae
- Tribe: Epilobieae
- Genus: Epilobium
- Species: Epilobium tetragonum
Presence
Present.
Conservation status
- Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern
Notes
Possible confusion with many species of the genus Epilobium. The pink flowers, the club-shaped stigma, the sessile leaves, and the square stem allow for the identification of E. tetragonum.
The following infraspecific taxa are accepted:
- E. tetragonum subsp. lamyi (F.W.Schultz) Nyman, 1879, P;
- E. tetragonum nothosubsp. semiadnatum (Borbás) B.Bock, 2012: subsp. lamyi × subsp. tetragonum, D;
- E. tetragonum subsp. tetragonum L., 1753, P;
- E. tetragonum subsp. tournefortii (Michalet) H.Lév., 1896, P.
Photographs
Sources
- Tison, J.M., & de Foucault, B. (2014). Flora Gallica : Flore de France (p. 845). Biotope.