Scientific Name
Epilobium angustifolium

Common Name
Fireweed; Great willowherb

Life Cycle: Perennial


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Height: 3 to 5 feet
Flower/fruit: 1 to 1.5 inch deep pink to magenta flowers on elongated, slender, drooping inflorescence with willow-like leaves; four roundish petals; seed pod contains numerous seeds with a tuft of silky hairs at one end
Flowering Season: Summer into fall
Foliage: Up to 8 inch alternate, lanceolate to linear leaves; almost stalkless
Site: Clearings, open woods
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