Index / Search / Chamerion angustifolium ssp. angustifolium
§1 Plant — subspecies · Onagraceae
Chamerion angustifolium (L.) Holub ssp. angustifolium
vernacular fireweed
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Onagraceae Juss.
- Genus
- Chamerion
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Native
- GL Greenland Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 90 min.
- Precipitation
- 8–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.8–7
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 5.5 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Purple
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Summer
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Fall
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 6,500,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Montana distribution
Recorded in 35 of 56 Montana counties.
Native · 35 counties
- Beaverhead 30001
- Big Horn 30003
- Blaine 30005
- Carbon 30009
- Chouteau 30015
- Daniels 30019
- Deer Lodge 30023
- Fergus 30027
- Flathead 30029
- Gallatin 30031
- Garfield 30033
- Glacier 30035
- Granite 30039
- Hill 30041
- Judith Basin 30045
- Lake 30047
- Lewis and Clark 30049
- Lincoln 30053
- Madison 30057
- McCone 30055
- Mineral 30061
- Missoula 30063
- Park 30067
- Phillips 30071
- Pondera 30073
- Powell 30077
- Ravalli 30081
- Rosebud 30087
- Sanders 30089
- Sheridan 30091
- Stillwater 30095
- Sweet Grass 30097
- Teton 30099
- Toole 30101
- Valley 30105
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CHANA2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7322650 ↗Record version
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