This tall showy native wildflower can cover an entire area with brilliant pink flowers. I saw a few larger patches of fireweed on a recent road trip but they weren’t in a area that I could stop for a picture, but there were some scattered clumps of them by a beach. The name fireweed comes from its ability to quickly colonize areas burned by fire. The flowers bloom low and work their way up the stem and some don’t want to see the top of the plant in blossoms as it signals the end of summer and the coming of winter.
Fireweed in Summer
