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Recent Examples of fireweed from the Web
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Spruce trees, willows and fireweed should not be mysteries.
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It's been an age-old adage among many fishermen that when the fireweed top out, the silver salmon are hitting their peak.
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Can someone who might have scientific knowledge of the subject please proffer a theory about what is going on with the fireweed this season?
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The forest floor was nearly bare, except for clumps of charcoal and a few short stems of bracken fern and fireweed, a hot pink flower whose seeds often blow in and germinate just after a conflagration.
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From time to time the fireweed season is a weak one.
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Nearly every tree had been stripped from the land by the time of the park’s founding, carted away for lumber or fireweed.
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Three riders finished the most daunting race — about 400 miles from Sheep Mountain to Valdez and back — in the 15th Fireweed last weekend, when Anthony Berberich and Christina Grande earned the men's and women's victories, respectively.
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Meanwhile mountain bouquets of aster, fireweed, lupine and glacier lily enthrall at every turn.
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Did You Know?
This is a perennial wildflower of the evening primrose family. Its spikes of whitish to magenta flowers, which grow up to 5 ft (1.5 m) high, are a spectacular sight on prairies of the temperate zone. Its seeds can lie dormant for many years, awaiting the warmth necessary for germination. Fireweed is one of the first plants to appear after a forest or brush fire; it also rapidly covers scrub or woodland areas that have been cleared by machine. It has limited use in wild gardens, where it must be carefully checked and confined.
First Known Use of fireweed
1764
Learn More about fireweed
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See words that rhyme with fireweed Britannica.com: Encyclopedia article about fireweed
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