General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: In Water
Wet
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8)
Plant Height: 2 to 6 feet
Fruit: Dehiscent
Other: 1 to 3.5 inch narrow pod containing numerous tufted seeds.
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Pink
Other: Rose-pink with white center
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Summer
Late summer or early fall
Underground structures: Rhizome
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Pollinators: Self
Hoverflies
Bees
Conservation status: Least Concern (LC)

Conservation status:
Conservation status: Least Concern
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Common names
  • Great Willowherb
  • Codlins and Cream
  • Hairy Willow-Herb
  • Shaggy Willowherb
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Epilobium hirsutum
  • Synonym: Epilobium sericeum

Photo Gallery
Location: Morpeth, Northumberland UK
Date: 2023-07-25
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2021-08-14
Location: Morpeth, Northumberland UK
Date: 2023-08-30
Location: Yorkshire UK
Date: 2021-08-14
Location: Cordoba, Argentina
Location: My garden near Lincoln UK
Date: 2010-07-24
It grows in the roadside drains, part of which is part of my gard
Location: Nature Reserve Gent, Belgium
Date: 2011-08-02

Credit Alexey Sergeev

Credit Alexey Sergeev
Location: Northumberland, UK
Date: 2009-08-09
Location: Nature Reserve Gent, Belgium
Date: 2011-08-02
Location: Nature Reserve Gent, Belgium
Date: Jul 8, 2008 4:15 PM
Location: Druridge bay county park, Northumberland UK
Date: 2008-07-26
Location: Northumberland UK
Date: 2021-07-03
Location: Nature Reserve Gent, Belgium
Date: Jul 8, 2008 4:16 PM

Photo by Leo Michels

Photo by Leo Michels
Location: Nature reserve, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2013-08-29
Blooms and seedpods
Location: Morpeth, Northumberland UK
Date: 2018-05-31

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