PINK WILD FLOWERS 



This species ranges from Maine to Florida and west 

 to Illinois, Missouri, and Louisiana. 



GREAT, OR SPIKED WILLOW-HERB. FIREWEED 



Epilobium angustifolium. Evening Primrose Family. 



In low grounds, especially in recent clearings and 

 newly burned over lands, the tall, showy, swaying, 

 magenta spikes of the Fireweed attract our attention 

 during June, July and August, from coast to coast. 

 So promptly and persistently does it follow in the 

 destructive tracks of fire and axe that I have often 

 thought this Phoenix of our woodlands raised its 

 brilliant danger signals as a silent protest and warning 

 against the reckless devastation of our depleted forests. 

 The upright, rather stout, simple or branched stalk 

 grows from two to eight feet in height. The very 

 short-stemmed, alternating, thin-textured leaves are 

 lance-shaped long and narrow, resembling willow 

 leaves and are usually toothless. They are pale 

 beneath, and their lateral veinings curve into each 

 other near the edge. The perfect rosettes of tufted 

 basal leaves are extremely ornamental in their geo- 

 metric formation. The flower has four rounded, widely 

 spreading, pink petals that are broadest above the 

 middle. The four long, narrow, pointed, brownish 

 sepals alternate with the petals between which they 

 expose their entire length. It has one four-tipped 

 pistil and eight spreading stamens. The flower is set 

 atop a slender, silky, crimson or purple stained pod. 

 The buds succeed each other closely and graduate in 



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