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PROPER NAMES FOR PLANTS

Remember this photo of a bee pollinating a flower that was sent in by Rachel Bee last week, winning her two free passes to the UBC Botanical Garden walkway? Well, we asked the Curator of Collections at the Garden, the master of all things flowering,

Remember this photo of a bee pollinating a flower that was sent in by Rachel Bee last week, to the UBC Botanical Garden walkway? Well, we asked the Curator of Collections at the Garden, the master of all things flowering, what kind of plant/flower it was and...

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The plant is called a Chamerion Angustifolium (aka Epilobium angustifolium), known to most as fireweed. And you can learn more about it here: