xats’et

Food
Medicinal
Material
Indicator

xats'et - fireweed

Hul’q’umi’num’ Name: xats’et

Taxon Name: Chamaenerion angustifolium

“Common” Name: fireweed

Cultural Values:

food

medicinal

material

indicator

Ecological Community: Anthropogenic, Freshwater

Wikipedia summary:
Chamaenerion angustifolium is a perennial herbaceous flowering plant in the willowherb family Onagraceae. It is known in North America as fireweed, in some parts of Canada as great willowherb, in Britain and Ireland as rosebay willowherb. In the United Kingdom it is also known as bombweed,a result of its rapid appearance on city bomb sites during the Blitz of World War II;

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Observational Data:
First reported: 2016-07-05
Source: iNat
Last reported: 2018-07-12
Source: iNat
Obervation count: 3