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Fireweed (other)
Fireweed (''Epilobium angustifolium'' or ''Chamaenerion angustifolium'') is a perennial herbaceous plant in the willowherb family ( Onagraceae). Fireweed: may also refer to: Plants * A species of plant in the genus '' Chamaenerion'' * A common name for ''Erechtites hieraciifolius'', a plant in the sunflower family * A common name for '' Senecio madagascariensis'' in Australia and Hawaii * '' Crassocephalum crepidioides'' (ebolo), an annual herbaceous plant in the sunflower family (Asteraceae) * Mexican fireweed, '' Bassia scoparia'', a shrub in family Amaranthaceae * ''Apalochlamys spectabilis'', a plant in the family Asteraceae, from Australia * A folk name for dodder * Chamaenerion latifolium, known as dwarf fireweed Other uses * ''Lyngbya majuscula ''Lyngbya majuscula'' is a species of filamentous cyanobacteria in the genus '' Lyngbya''. It is named after the Dane Hans Christian Lyngbye. As a result of recent genetic analyses, several new genera were erected from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fireweed
''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, as a result of its rapid appearance on city bomb sites during the Blitz of World War II; the plant is also traditionally known as Saint Anthony's laurel. It is also known by the synonyms ''Chamerion angustifolium'' and ''Epilobium angustifolium''. It is native throughout the temperate Northern Hemisphere, including large parts of the boreal forests. Description The reddish stems of this herbaceous perennial are usually simple, erect, smooth, high with scattered alternate leaves. The leaves are spirally arranged, entire, narrowly lanceolate, and pinnately veined, the secondary leaf veins anastomosing, joining together to form a continuous marginal vein just inside the leaf margins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Onagraceae
The Onagraceae are a family of flowering plants known as the willowherb family or evening primrose family. They include about 650 species of herbs, shrubs, and treesOnagraceae. Flora of China. in 17 genera. The family is widespread, occurring on every continent from boreal to tropical regions. The family includes a number of popular plants, including evening primroses ('' Oenothera'') and |
Chamaenerion
''Chamaenerion'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Onagraceae (the evening primrose or willowherb family). It has sometimes been included in the genus ''Epilobium''. Members of the genus may be called willowherbs (along with ''Epilobium''), or fireweeds, based on a common name used for '' C. angustifolium''. They are upright herbaceous perennials, growing from a woody base or from rhizomes, with racemes of usually purple to pink flowers. All species are found in the northern hemisphere. Most occur in moist habitats; ''C. angustifolium'' is the exception, favouring disturbed ground. Description ''Chamaenerion'' species are upright herbaceous perennials with either unbranched stems or, much less often, slightly branched stems. They either have a woody base or grow from rhizomes. The leaves are generally spirally arranged on the stems and are usually narrow, rarely ovate. The inflorescence is a simple or slightly branched raceme. Individual flowers have fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erechtites Hieraciifolius
''Erechtites hieraciifolius'' (fireweed, American burnweed, or pilewort) is a plant in the daisy family, Asteraceae. It is native to the Americas, but is found many places around the world having been introduced by human activity. It is introduced in Hawaii, China, and Southeast Asia. Description ''Erechtites hieraciifolius'' is an annual herb with alternate, simple leaves, on thick, green stems. The leaves are serrated, and range from unlobed to deeply lobed, with the lobe pattern superficially resembling wild lettuces, which are in the same family but not closely related. When crushed, all parts of the species are aromatic. The flower heads are yellow or pink, borne in fall. The heads are followed by cluster of small, wispy achenes. The plant often branches and grows in a clump with multiple stems. Ecology This species benefits from fire, and is often one of the earliest pioneer species of areas that have recently burned, hence some of its common names. It prefers moist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senecio Madagascariensis
''Senecio madagascariensis'', also known as Madagascar ragwort, is a species of the genus ''Senecio'' and family Asteraceae that is native to Southern Africa. Other common names include Madagascar groundsel and fireweed. It has been included on the noxious weeds list for Hawaii and the reject list for Australia. ''S.madagascariensis'' is the diploid cytotype of S.inaequidens. Description It is an erect, glabrous (smooth stemmed) herb that grows up to 20–60 cm in length. It may become woody and shrub-like in appropriate conditions. Leaves are alternate, narrow-lanceolate to elliptic in shape, usually bright green, smooth with margins that are lobed, serrate or entire. The broader, larger leaves are stem clenching and fleshy, 2–7 cm long and 3-10mm wide. The flowerhead, which is part of an unfirm corymb, is made up of disc florets and ray florets, and is small, yellow and daisy-like, from 1–2 cm in diameter. The plant flowers between late autumn and early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crassocephalum Crepidioides
''Crassocephalum crepidioides'', also called ebolo, thickhead, redflower ragleaf, or fireweed, is an erect annual slightly succulent herb growing up to 180 cm tall. Its use is widespread in many tropical and subtropical regions, but is especially prominent in tropical Africa. Its fleshy, mucilaginous leaves and stems are eaten as a vegetable, and many parts of the plant have medical uses. However, the safety of internal use needs further research due to the presence of plant toxins.Grubben, G.J.H., ''Vegetables, Volume 2 of Plant Resources of Tropical Africa'', PROTA 2004, Ecology The species is invasive in New Caledonia. Toxicity ''Crassocephalum crepidioides'' contains the hepatotoxic and tumorigenic pyrrolizidine alkaloid Pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs), sometimes referred to as necine bases, are a group of naturally occurring alkaloids based on the structure of pyrrolizidine. Pyrrolizidine alkaloids are produced by plants as a defense mechanism against insect he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bassia Scoparia
''Bassia scoparia'' is a large annual herb in the family Amaranthaceae ('' sensu lato'') native to Eurasia. It has been introduced to many parts of North America,''Bassia scoparia''. USDA PLANTS. Retrieved October 19, 2007. where it is found in grassland, prairie, and desert shrub ecosystems. USFS Fire Effects Information System. Its s include ragweed, summer cypress, mock-cypress, kochia, belvedere, burningbush, Mexican firebrush, and Mexican fireweed, the provenance of the latter three na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apalochlamys Spectabilis
''Apalochlamys'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae .... The sole species in the genus is ''Apalochlamys spectabilis'', commonly known as showy cassinia or fireweed. References Monotypic Asteraceae genera Flora of New South Wales Flora of South Australia Flora of Tasmania Flora of Victoria (Australia) Taxa named by Jacques Labillardière {{Gnaphalieae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuscuta
''Cuscuta'' (), commonly known as dodder or amarbel, is a genus of over 201 species of yellow, orange, or red (rarely green) parasitic plants. Formerly treated as the only genus in the family Cuscutaceae, it now is accepted as belonging in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae, on the basis of the work of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. The genus is found throughout the temperate and tropical regions of the world, with the greatest species diversity in subtropical and tropical regions; the genus becomes rare in cool temperate climates, with only four species native to northern Europe. Folk names include: strangle tare, scaldweed, beggarweed, lady's laces, fireweed, wizard's net, devil's guts, devil's hair, devil's ringlet, goldthread, hailweed, hairweed, hellbine, love vine, pull-down, strangleweed, angel hair, and witch's hair. Description Cuscuta can be identified by its thin stems appearing leafless, with the leaves reduced to minute scales. In these respects it closel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chamaenerion Latifolium
''Chamaenerion latifolium'' (formerly ''Epilobium latifolium'', also called ''Chamerion latifolium'') is a species of flowering plant in the evening primrose family known by the English common names dwarf fireweed and river beauty willowherb. It has a circumboreal distribution, appearing throughout the northern regions of the Northern Hemisphere, including subarctic and Arctic areas such as snowmelt-flooded gravel bars and talus, in a wide range of elevations.Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago This is a perennial herb growing in clumps of leaves variable in size, shape, and texture above a woody . The leaves are 1 to 10 centimeters long, lance-shaped to oval, pointed or rou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyngbya Majuscula
''Lyngbya majuscula'' is a species of filamentous cyanobacteria in the genus '' Lyngbya''. It is named after the Dane Hans Christian Lyngbye. As a result of recent genetic analyses, several new genera were erected from the genus ''Lyngbya'': ''e.g.'', '' Moorea'', '' Limnoraphis'', '' Okeania'', '' Microseira'', and '' Dapis''. Almost 300 different secondary metabolites have been isolated from specimens identified as ''L. majuscula''. However, most of these studies lack a molecular identification of the samples. Several specimens identified as ''L. majuscula'' and collected in marine tropical regions are now classified as members of the genera ''Okeania'' and ''Moorea''. Antillatoxin Antillatoxin (ATX) is a potent lipopeptide neurotoxin produced by the marine cyanobacterium ''Lyngbya majuscula''. ATX activates voltage-gated sodium channels, which can cause cell depolarisation, NMDA-receptor overactivity, excess calcium influx ... and Kalkitoxin have been reported to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
