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Fireweed is a perennial herbaceous flowering plant in the willowherb family Onagraceae. This plant in Britian is also known as Bombweed because of its rapid appearance on city bomb sites during the Blitz in World War Two. has many uses to the human body and to the area around them, they can be used as tea, which is high in iron, copper, potassium, and calcium. It is also used in many foods like ice cream and jam, when they’re properly prepared after picking, they are a good source of vitamin C and provitamin A.

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The generic name Chamaenerion means ‘dwarf -oleander’ and the Latin epithet angustifolium translates as ‘narrow-leaved’. Honey produced from this flower is highly valued for its quality. Most of the honey is produced in cool climates, such the United States and Scandinavian countries in Europe. As the first plant to colonize waste ground, this plant is often mentioned in post British literature. The Childrens novel Fireweed is set during the Biltz and features two runaway teenagers who meet on bomb sites where fireweed is growing profusely. Another Children’s novel, A Reflection of Rachel features a protagonist attempting to restore an old garden that used “Rose Pink Willow Herb” as an ornamental plant and mentions its notoriety for growing on abandoned bomb sites. Another novel written by Cicely Maty Barker’s 1948 book Flower Faries of the wayside included ‘The Rose-Bay Willow-Herb Fairy’, with the accompanying verse “On the breeze my fluff is blown; So my airy seeds are sown. Where the earth is burnt and sad. I will come to make it glad. All forlorn and ruined places, all neglected empty spaces, I can cover—only think! — With a mass of rosy, pink."

In land management, Fireweed is a useful tool that can be utilized after prescribed fires and logging events because of its fire-resistant ability to recycle the nutrients left in the soil after a fire, events like logging and fires can leave the land barren without vegetation and it will cause the land to be more susceptible to erosion because of the lack of root structure in the soil.

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