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Clumped perennial, forming large colonies by sprouting from woody rootstock; stems simple or moderately branched, glabrescent to dense strigillose, especially on inflorescence, 4-70 cm tall. Leaves elliptic to lanceolate-elliptic, 1-4.5 (-7.5) x 0.5-1.5(-2.5) cm, glabrous or sparse strigillose on upper leaves, especially on veins and margins, entire or sparsely denticulate, spirally arranged, strongly attenuate to shortly petiolate or subsessile. Inflorescence erect, 1-7(-12)-flowered, leafy. Flowers strongly recurved before anthesis, ovaries densely canescent, 12-20 mm, on pedicels 10-18 mm. Sepals 11-16 x 3-3.8 mm, acute, sparse to moderately pubescent. Petals 13-32 x 6-23 mm, entire, bright rose-purple to pale pink. Style 3.5-10 mm, sharply deflexed, becoming erect after anthers dehisce, glabrous to quite pubescent around the base. Stigma deeply 4-lobed and recurved, exserted beyond the anthers or sometimes surrounded by them. Capsules 4.5-7.5 cm long, on pedicels 1-1.8 cm long. Seeds 1.3-2.1 x 0.44-0.58 mm, acuminate, surface irregularly foveolate, the chalazal collar quite conspicuous, 0.1 -0.16 mm long; coma 9-12 mm long, white, not markedly deciduous.
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Flora of Pakistan Vol. 139: 13 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Synonym

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Chamaenerion latifolium (L.) Fr. & Lange in Fl. Dan. xvii, 49: 7. 1877; Shteinb. in Schischk. & Bobrov, Fl. URSS 15: 626 . 1949 ; Wendelbo, Nytt. Mag. Bot. 1: 46. 1952; Chamerion latifolium (L.) Holub, Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 7: 86. 1972.
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Flora of Pakistan Vol. 139: 13 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Chamaenerion latifolium

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Chamaenerion latifolium (formerly Epilobium latifolium, also called Chamerion latifolium)[1][2] is a species of flowering plant in the evening primrose family known by the English common names dwarf fireweed[3] 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.[4] This is a perennial herb growing in clumps of leaves variable in size, shape, and texture above a woody caudex. The leaves are 1 to 10 centimeters long, lance-shaped to oval, pointed or rounded at the tips, and hairy to hairless and waxy. The inflorescence is a rough-haired raceme of nodding flowers with bright to deep pink, and occasionally white, petals up to 3 centimeters long. Behind the opened petals are pointed sepals. The fruit is an elongated capsule which may exceed 10 centimeters in length.

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, and is also known in the Canadian tundra as River Beauty.

It is the national flower of Greenland[7] with the Greenlandic name niviarsiaq ("young girl").

Flower of Chamerion latifolium

References

  1. ^ a b c "Chamaenerion latifolium (L.) Sweet", Tropicos, Missouri Botanical Garden, retrieved 2017-03-03
  2. ^ "Chamerion angustifolium (L.) Holub ssp. circumvagum (Mosquin) Hoch [JPM2]". Washington Flora Checklist. University of Washington Herbarium, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. Retrieved 2012-10-05.
  3. ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Chamerion latifolium". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
  4. ^ a b Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago Archived June 5, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Ethnobotany
  6. ^ Reiner, Ralph E. (1969). Introducing the Flowering Beauty of Glacier National Park and the Majestic High Rockies. Glacier Park, Inc. p. 70.
  7. ^ The national flower of Greenland: Dwarf fireweed

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Chamaenerion latifolium: Brief Summary

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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. This is a perennial herb growing in clumps of leaves variable in size, shape, and texture above a woody caudex. The leaves are 1 to 10 centimeters long, lance-shaped to oval, pointed or rounded at the tips, and hairy to hairless and waxy. The inflorescence is a rough-haired raceme of nodding flowers with bright to deep pink, and occasionally white, petals up to 3 centimeters long. Behind the opened petals are pointed sepals. The fruit is an elongated capsule which may exceed 10 centimeters in length.

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. The leaves and shoots are edible, tasting much like spinach, and is also known in the Canadian tundra as River Beauty.

It is the national flower of Greenland with the Greenlandic name niviarsiaq ("young girl").

Flower of Chamerion latifolium
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