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Also Known As wickup • great willow herb • Epilobium angustifolium

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Fireweed flowers
Fireweed in bloom
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Dense pink fireweed (Chamaenerion angustifolium) grows among tall, blackened tree snags in a post-fire forest in Kootenay National Park, British Columbia.
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