Color Names

Fireweed

Mauve as the flowers that bloom after a burn, on scorched earth.

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Fireweed is a muted pink, close to mauve.

It can be described as muted, dull, matte and soft.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Fireweed

Fireweed (periodical)

Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly of Writing, Politics, Art & Culture, was founded in Toronto, Canada, in 1978 by the Fireweed Collective. Collective members have included Gay Allison, Lynne Fernie, Hilda Kirkwood, Liz Brady, Elizabeth Ruth, Makeda Silvera, Carolyn Smart and Rhea Tregebov. Issues of Fireweed usually focus on a theme or topic, such as "Writing" (#10), "Fear & Violence" (#14), "Women of Colour" (#16), "Canadian Women Poets" (#23), "Class", "Sex & Sexuality", and "Language" (#44/45), though there are frequent "open" issues.

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Chamaenerion angustifolium

Chamaenerion angustifolium is a perennial herbaceous flowering plant in the willowherb family, Onagraceae. It is known in North America as fireweed and in the British Isles as both fireweed and rosebay willowherb. It is also known by the taxonomic synonyms Chamerion angustifolium and Epilobium angustifolium. It is native throughout the temperate Northern Hemisphere, including large parts of the boreal forests.

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fireweed

Noun

  1. A perennial herbaceous plant (Epilobium angustifolium or Chamaenerion angustifolium) in the willowherb family Onagraceae.
  2. Any of the flowering plants of the genus Erechtites.
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