PINK WILD FLOWERS 
This species ranges from Maime. to Florida and west 
to Illinois, Missouri, and Louisiana. 
GREAT, OR SPIKED WILLOW-HERB. FIREWEED- 
Epildbium 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 ofter 
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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