Fireweed
Epilobium angustifolium
About Fireweed
Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) is a herb used in the Indigenous / Native American and Appalachian Folk Medicine traditions to help with Prostate Health, Digestive Issues, Wound Healing, and Skin Health, among 1 other condition it addresses. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, used both internally and topically.
Botanical background
Chamaenerion angustifolium is a perennial herbaceous flowering plant in the willowherb family Onagraceae. It is known in North America as fireweed, in some parts of Canada as great willowherb, in Britain and Ireland as rosebay willowherb. In the United Kingdom it is also known as bombweed, as a result of its rapid appearance on city bomb sites during the Blitz of World War II.: 112 It is also known by the synonyms Chamerion angustifolium and Epilobium angustifolium....
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist