Fireweed 🌸🤩, also called great willowherb, rosebay willowherb, and bombweed! This beautiful perennial plant blooms magenta to pink coloured flowers that turn into seeds with silky hairs to help them disperse in the wind 🌬️. One plant can have around 80,000 seeds, with about 400 seeds in each seed pod. Fireweed is quick to colonize a disturbed site - hence its name “bombweed” which was given due to its quick colonization in bomb sites in World War 2. Fireweed (Chamaenerion angustifolium) is na

Welcome back to Edible or Not! Today we're learning about fireweed, Chamaenerion angustifolium. Fireweed is a very widespread plant that can be found across most of the northern hemisphere. In North America it's most common in the western and northern regions. Fireweed has ✅ Smooth stems, often red towards the top. ✅ Simple, alternate pinnately-veined leaves. ✅ Pink-purple flowers with 4 petals and 4 sepals. ✅ Long, capsuled fruits. ✅ Lots of tiny, fluffy seeds. Fireweed is edible! The young sho

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