California fuchsia (Wildflowers of Bouverie Preserve of ACR)

California fuchsia

Epilobium canum

Summary ⁵

Epilobium canum, also known as California fuchsia or Zauschneria, is a species of willowherb, native to dry slopes and in chaparral of western North America, especially California. It is a perennial plant, notable for the profusion of bright scarlet flowers in late summer and autumn.

Description ⁶

It is a subshrub growing to 60 cm tall. Native populations of these plants exhibit considerable variation in appearance and habit. The small leaves may be opposite or alternate, lance-shaped or ovate, with short to nonexistent stalks, and range in color from green to nearly white. Overall shape may be matting or mounding, the plants commonly spreading via rhizomes. The racemes of tubular or funnel-shaped flowers are terminal, and colors are mostly reddish, ranging from fuchsia to pink to red-orange.

The wide degree of variation has led to the description of many subspecies, mostly no longer recognised as distinct due to the extensive intergradation between them; the following are still recognised:

Community ⁷

Chaparral, Coastal Sage Scrub

Flowering ⁷

Jun- Oct

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Adapted by Jeanne Wirka from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epilobium_canum
(c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epilobium_canum
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More Info

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iNat Map

Color	red
Lifeform	shrub

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