Chamerion latifolium
(L.) Holub
Dwarf fireweed
Chamerion latifolium is a perennial herb that is native to California, and also found elsewhere in North America and beyond.
Bloom Period
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Occurs usually in wetlands, occasionally in non wetlands
Lodgepole Forest, Subalpine Forest, wetland-riparian
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[Wikipedia] Food Source: This arctic plant provides valuable nutrition for the Inuit, who eat the leaves raw, boiled with fat, or steeped in water for tea, the flowers and fruits raw, and as a salad with meals of seal and walrus blubber.[4][5] The leaves and shoots are edible,[6] tasting much like spinach...
