EditorialRancher's fireweed wildflowers grow at Carrizo Plain National Monument in Santa Margarita, Calif., March 25, 2023. (Stella Kalinina/The New York Times)
EditorialYanagiran or fireweed, Chamerion angustifolium. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1900.
EditorialRosebay willowherb or fireweed, Chamerion angustifolium. Handcolored copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration from G. T. Wilhelm's "Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte" (Encyclopedia of Natural History), Augsburg, 1811. Gottlieb Tobias Wilh...