Main page Habit Foliage Flowers Seed
Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) flowers are quite showy, and
if it wasn't such a nuisance weed, it might be salable. The image
below shows some fireweed growing in a container yard of hydrangeas.
Flowers are pink, occurring in terminal racemes.
Each flower has 4 petals, 4 sepals, 8 stamen, and 1 style bearing a 4 lobed
stigma. The style is noticeably long and ornate.
In the image below, note that the petals are pink and round-oval in shape,
while sepals have a deeper purple color and are more linear.
As with all racemous inflorescence, flowers open from the bottom to the
top. Notice the drooping nature of unopened buds, followed by open flowers,
followed by erect seedpods (from top to bottom).
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