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Epilobium
Family: Onagraceae
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Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Fls 4-merous; hypanthium usually prolonged a little beyond the summit of the elongate, slender ovary and simulating a cal-tube; sep ovate to lanceolate, deciduous from the fr; pet white to pink or purple; stamens 8, often unequal; style short; stigma clavate, ovoid, or 4-cleft; capsule linear, elongate, 4-valved; seeds numerous, small, bearing a terminal coma of hairs; annual or usually perennial herbs, rarely subshrubs, with alternate or opposite, linear to ovate lvs; fls many to few in elongate or short terminal racemes, or even solitary. 200, N. and S. Temp. and Arctic.

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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Species within checklist: Kansas
Epilobium adenocaulon
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Epilobium americanum
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Epilobium brevistylum
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Epilobium californicum
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Epilobium ciliatum
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Epilobium coloratum
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Epilobium delicatum
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Epilobium ecomosum
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Epilobium leptophyllum
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Epilobium lineare
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Epilobium nesophilum
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Epilobium oliganthum
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Epilobium palustre
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Epilobium pylaieanum
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Epilobium rosmarinifolium
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Epilobium ursinum
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Epilobium wyomingense
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