William McKinley

The Épilobe out of ear , or Bay-tree of Saint-Anthony , is an annual herbaceous plant of the kind Epilobium of the family of the Onagracée S. Scientific name: Epilobium angustifolium L. (synonymous: Chamaenerion angustifolium (L.) Scop.)

Description

Form: stem reaching of 1,5 m to 2 m height.
Sheets: alternate, sessile, whole, lancéolées and very lengthened.
Flowers: large of a sharp crimson, in long bunch.
Flowering: from June to September.
Habitat: in dense colony in all the released grounds, like wet wood-cuttings, clearings, edges, slopes, ravines, burnt places. extends to the favor from the deforestations and the fires.
Altitude: up to 2500 Mr.
Toxicity: not
protected Plant: not

Surface of distribution

In France, the ear épilobe is common on average mountain in open forest spaces. It appears in great number after wood-cuttings, then rarefies as the forest is closed again. The species penetrates little in midday, but is present as far as low Provence in (ubac) of the solid masses of the Holy-Balsam and the Holy-Victoire mountain. She is there however very rare since the Holy-Balsam counts only one score of individuals in two stations around 800 m of altitude in the hêtraie; she is even rarer in the Holy-Victoire. One discovered in (May 2004) about fifteen feet around 740 m of altitude in a fresh small valley above Delubre.

See too

Flowers of the Alps
Glossary of the flowers of the Pyrenees

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