Plant. Photographer Don Wood, ACT

Plant. Photographer Neville Best, near Sunbury, Vic

Flowers and fruiting bodies. Photographer Neville Best, near Sunbury, Vic

Plants. Photographer Sue Guymer, Melbourne, Vic

Seeding plant. Photographer Sue Guymer, Melbourne, Vic

Plant. Photographer Sue Guymer, Melbourne, Vic

Common Name

Hoary Willow-herb, Willow-herb

Family

Onagraceae

Notes

Perennial forb to 1.2 tall. Leaves alternating up the stems, or a few near the base of the plant opposite each other, 1.5-6.5cm long, 2-8mm wide, linear to flat, hairy, greyish at least when young, minutely toothed in the upper half or only near the rounded tip. Flowers purplish pink to cream to white, with 4 'petals', solitary on short stalks at the bases of the leaves. In shady, damp, or waste places.

Description and photo in GM Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and JH Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 533

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Epilobium~hirtigerum