EPPO Global Database

Chamerion latifolium(CHALA)

Overview
Code created in: 2016-10-22

Basic information
  • EPPO Code: CHALA
  • Preferred name: Chamerion latifolium
  • Authority: (Linnaeus) Holub

Notes

Mainly Arctic: Iceland, Russia (northern), Siberia, Russian Far East, Canada, Greenland. National plant of Greenland. Also Central Asia, Western Asia, Himalayas, China, Japan, Mongolia, USA


Other scientific names
Name Authority
Chamaenerion latifolium (Linnaeus) Sweet
Epilobium latifolium Linnaeus

Common names
Name Language
dwarf fireweed English (CA)
river beauty willowherb English (CA)
epilóbio-do-ártico Portuguese
praktmjölke Swedish
хаменериум широколистный Russian
storblomstret gederams Danish
praktmjølke Norwegian
naalinhorsma Finnish
eyrarós Icelandic