Great Willowherb

Description:

This willowherb is a tall, flowering, perennial plant belonging to family Onagraceae. Here, about a meter tall, with robust, slightly hairy stems bearing narrow, slightly dented leaves without stalk. Flowers are pink, about 2cm in diameter, with distinctive four-lobed stigma.

Habitat:

This Willowherb is common one in our region, and I observed it in a wide variety of habitats, from mountain grasslands to lower-altitude meadows and forest edges. Most often it grows in places well exposed to sun. Here, observed growing on edges of deciduous, predominantly oak, (Bagasse forest) forest on France-Switzerland border, in a valley of lake Geneva, just in between Jura and Alps mountains ranges.