Stats

Lifespan: Perennial
Size: Medium
Diet: Photosynthetic
Biome: Boreal forest
Range: Northern Hemisphere
Movement: Sessile
Breeding: Seeds
Defense: Toxins
Status: Common

About

A tall wildflower of the evening-primrose family that erupts in vivid magenta spikes across fire-scorched hillsides, earning its name by being one of the first plants to colonise burned ground. Each spike blooms from bottom to top and can release up to 80,000 feathery seeds that drift miles on the wind.

Life cycle

1.
seed
A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
2.
sprout
A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
3.
sapling
A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
4.
mature
Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Myrtales
Family: Onagraceae
Genus: Chamaenerion
Species: Chamaenerion angustifolium