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Discussion in 'Plants: Identification' started by champayle, Nov 15, 2008.

  1. champayle

    champayle Member

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    Hi, I'm new to posting here. This plant started growing in my yard, and I was wondering if anyone could identify it for me. Thanks!
     

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  2. Barbara Lloyd

    Barbara Lloyd Well-Known Member

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    OK Guys, this is driving me nuts! It looks soooo familiar.
    I have been thru - "Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast", Pojar*Mackinnon;
    "North West Coastal Wildflowers", Visalli*Ditchburn*Lockwood; and
    "Roadside Wildflowers of the Northwest", Underhill.
    Those books? Because it looks like a young Fireweed * Epilobuim angustifolium
    It's windblown/bird carried and crops up every where. And, it is one of the first to come back after a fire so may be floating all over the place. Calf. had fires starting last Spring and to me it sounds logical.
    Come on guys! Wrong? Right?
     
  3. Ron B

    Ron B Paragon of Plants 10 Years

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    Has the appearance of one of the common weedy annual fireweeds rather than the perennial E. angustifolium.
     
  4. Barbara Lloyd

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    Fireweed is Fireweed or so I thought. I just copied the name given in Pojars. Didn't realize there were more.
    But, do you agree it does look like fireweed?
     
  5. abgardeneer

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    Yes, epilobium occurred to me too.
     

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