Epilobium lanceolatum Spear-leaved Willowherb

A distinctive, grey-green, perennial willowherb with narrow, lanceolate, mostly alternate leaves which have distinct stalks and small pink flowers with deeply-lobed petals and stigmas that are 4-lobed. It grows in dry, open habitats such as sand dunes and stony places on waste ground, railways, coal tips and in open mosaic habitats. It is a submediterranean-subatlantic species with a markedly  southern distribution in Britain, biased towards the west and most common in southwest England. It is much less common in Wales but it has extended its range westwards there in recent decades. In West Glamorgan it is found in small populations on sand dunes and in coastal, open mosaic habitats with a few inland records, but it may be under recorded.

Native