Epilobium canum(Greene) P.H.Raven

California fuchsia

WFO wfo-0000668881 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Epilobium canum, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. a Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-14 / obs. 197977063
Epilobium canum, photographed by Millie Basden
fig. b Millie Basden, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194315557
Epilobium canum, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. c Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183454130
Epilobium canum, photographed by Henrik Kibak
fig. d Henrik Kibak, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172949607
Epilobium canum, photographed by Dorothy Johnson
fig. e Dorothy Johnson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 183124197
Epilobium canum, photographed by Amy
fig. f Amy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182931909
Epilobium canum, photographed by Dan Horowitz
fig. g Dan Horowitz, CC0 1.0 / obs. 173562498
Epilobium canum, photographed by George Williams
fig. h George Williams, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171922020

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Flowering n = 9,000 observations

Peak flowering in Sep, from 9,000 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 43 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Epilobium canum subsp. angustifolium (Keck) P.H.Raven
  • Epilobium canum subsp. mexicanum (C.Presl) P.H.Raven
  • Epilobium canum var. garrettii (A.Nelson) N.H.Holmgren & P.K.Holmgren
  • Epilobium canum var. latifolium (Hook.) N.H.Holmgren & P.K.Holmgren
  • Zauschneria argentea A.Nelson
  • Zauschneria arizonica Davidson
  • Zauschneria californica C.Presl
  • Zauschneria californica f. albiflora Tralau
  • Zauschneria californica subsp. angustifolia D.D.Keck
  • Zauschneria californica subsp. californica
  • Zauschneria californica subsp. latifolia (Hook.) D.D.Keck
  • Zauschneria californica subsp. mexicana (C.Presl) P.H.Raven
  • Zauschneria californica subsp. typica D.D.Keck
  • Zauschneria californica var. arizonica Purpus
  • Zauschneria californica var. californica
  • Zauschneria californica var. latifolia Hook.
  • Zauschneria californica var. mexicana (C.Presl) Hoover
  • Zauschneria californica var. microphylla A.Gray ex W.H.Brewer & S.Watson
  • Zauschneria californica var. typica Hilend
  • Zauschneria californica var. villosa (Greene) Jeps.
  • Zauschneria cana Greene
  • Zauschneria crassifolia Rydb.
  • Zauschneria eastwoodae Eastw. & Moxley
  • Zauschneria elegans Eastw. ex Moxley

and 19 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.