This plant produces some beautiful flowers and rather interesting seed pods. It's a fairly common plant throughout the Northern Hemisphere. It can be used to make jelly or tea and it is often used to reseed forest areas after a fire. In fact, it got its name since it is one of the first plants to repopulate an area following a fire. Although this plant is also known by the common name rosebay willowherb, it has been reclassified a couple times and now has Chamaenerion angustifolium as its scientific name. Fireweed belongs to the Onagraceae (Evening Primrose Family).

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