Stems often branched, upper parts with erect glandular and non-glandular hairs or a close pubescence. Leaves mostly lanceolate, 4–12 mm wide, margins often undulate. Flowers white or pale purplish-pink. Flowers mainly Nov.–Mar.
LoM, Wim, GleP, Brid, VVP, MuF, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGL, EGU, HSF, HNF. WA, SA, NSW, Tas. Scattered across southern Victoria, mostly in damp places and at low altitudes.
This taxon has probably arisen from hybridisation between Epilobium billardiereanum subsp. billardiereanum and subsp. cinereum and is as common as either subspecies in low altitude parts of southern Western Australia, South Australia and Victoria where it sometimes forms large populations of quite uniform morphology.
