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Tall North American perennial with creeping rootstocks and narrow leaves and spikes of pinkish-purple flowers occurring in great abundance in burned-over areas or recent clearings
Answer for the clue "Tall North American perennial with creeping rootstocks and narrow leaves and spikes of pinkish-purple flowers occurring in great abundance in burned-over areas or recent clearings ", 8 letters:
fireweed
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WordNet
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n. tall North American perennial with creeping rootstocks and narrow leaves and spikes of pinkish-purple flowers occurring in great abundance in burned-over areas or recent clearings; an important honey plant [syn: giant willowherb , rosebay willowherb ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fireweed \Fire"weed`\, n. (Bot.) An American plant ( Erechthites hiercifolia ), very troublesome in spots where brushwood has been burned. The great willow-herb ( Epilobium spicatum ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A perennial herbaceous plant ((taxlink Epilobium angustifolium species noshow=1)) in the willowherb family ''Onagraceae''.
Usage examples of fireweed.
Backed up against the mountain on one side, it was guarded by the river on the west and south, while the fireweed meadow on the east kept even the worlags from nosing in.
A sudden roar erupted from the fireweed line, and the raiders, as one, leapt to their feet.
Trennt broke through a snarling tangle of fireweed to the base of yet another tremor-fresh scarp.
She arranged the fireweed fuzz in a nest of stringy bark under the notch of the fire platform and braced it with her foot, then put the end of the cattail stalk in the notch and took a deep breath.
She demonstrated hitting the stones together, then piled shaggy bark fiber and fireweed fuzz together and gave him the flint and iron pyrite.
Nezzie had produced a small ember from another fireplace, and with it set fire to some fluff from the seedpods of fireweed collected for tinder.
She had a piece of iron pyrite in one hand, flint in the other, and on the ground in front of her was a small pile of fireweed fluff.
Ayla slipped off her mittens and squatted down over a small pile of fireweed lint and crushed dung.
Off to his right at the edge of the rockslide red fireweed plumes swayed on the slope.
He boulder-hopped and walked downstream to the lowest corner of Unit Two and stood on the first scorched stump inside the fireline with its fringe of dead fireweed and bracken.
The gate opened to the southwest, and the road led from it into a field of brilliant crimson fireweed and pink wild heather awash in a ground of green.
A world was his, expanding through the smell of red cedar and fireweed to the dreamy mountains and a sky full of every shape of cloud.
Worse than fireweed or stranglervine could grow if that seed was allowed to sprout, but the Gray Sitter had sheltered herself from blame very neatly.
It is surrounded by a small mossy rectangle of fireweed, liverworts, huckleberry, ferns, and magic psilocybin mushrooms.
He asked if she were hungry and brought her things, smoked-salmon strips and once a bracelet of woven fireweed, as though her efforts were for his benefit or the desire, like his, to gather the gold.