A plant of temperate regions that typically has leaves similar to those of the willow and pink or pale purple flowers.
柳叶菜；柳兰
Epilobium and related genera, family Onagraceae: many species, including the common great hairy willowherb (E. hirsutum) of Eurasia, and the rosebay
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Not long ago so many plants sprouted from a single packet of seed that willowherb itself might have been jealous.
And I do wonder why she had to find her inspiration in the rose bay willowherb she saw in Germany, when there must be a wealth of other imagery in the Park itself (including willowherb, I'm sure).
Among the common wildflowers are one-flowered cinquefoil, woolly lousewort, alpine willowherb, three saxifrages, and an Indian paintbrush.
But this warbler is usually associated with tangled vegetation near water or with reedbeds containing alders and an undergrowth including bramble, nettle and willowherb.
If its tenacity in our garden is anything to go by, willowherb (along with cockroaches, apparently) will survive any nuclear onslaught.