Epilobium oreganum

Oregon fireweed, Oregon Fireweed

Family: Onagraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 1B.2

Oregon fireweed is a rare (CNPS 1B.2) California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges and northern Coast Ranges in bogs and small stream habitats at elevations of 550 to 1,800 meters. Flowering from July to August, this plant produces delicate pink to rose-purple flowers 10 to 15 millimeters long with distinctive red-tinged veins. Growing 40 to 100 centimeters tall with leafy basal shoots, it develops an open, sparsely glandular inflorescence. Its narrow-lanceolate to ovate leaves measure 30 to 90 millimeters long, with short 1 to 3 millimeter petioles and conspicuous reddish veins. The fruit is a slender 25 to 45 millimeter capsule covered in fine hairs and glandular texture.

Habitat: Bogs, small streams

Bloom period: Jul-Aug

Elevation: 550-1800 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoRO

California counties: Humboldt, Tehama, Trinity, Tulare, Sierra, Fresno, Mendocino, San Bernardino, Siskiyou, Plumas, El Dorado, Del Norte, Shasta

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.