Synonyms:
fireweed, Erechtites_hieracifolia
Meaning: an American weedy plant with small white or greenish flowers
Synonyms:
fireweed, giant_willowherb, rosebay_willowherb, wickup, Epilobium_angustifolium
Meaning: tall North American perennial with creeping rootstocks and narrow leaves and spikes of pinkish-purple flowers occurring in great abundance in burned-over areas or recent clearings; an important honey plant
Usage examples
Along most of its extent it was lined with thick-set young spruces crowding down to the roadway, with here and there a break where the back field of a Spencervale farm came out to the fence or an expanse of stumps was aflame with fireweed and goldenrod.