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Jewelweed (Spotted Touch-me-not) (Impatiens capensis)


Identification Food & Medicinal Uses Web Page Links Online Videos References


Identification

KingdomPlantae – Plants
SubkingdomTracheobionta – Vascular plants
SuperdivisionSpermatophyta – Seed plants
DivisionMagnoliophyta – Flowering plants
ClassMagnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
SubclassRosidae
OrderGeraniales
FamilyBalsaminaceae – Touch-me-not family
GenusImpatiens L. – touch-me-not
SpeciesImpatiens capensis Meerb. – jewelweed


Food & Medicinal Uses



Web Page Links



Online Videos



References

1
Native American Ethnobotany

by Daniel E. Moerman
Timber Press, c1998
ISBN: 0881924539
2
Medicinal and Other Uses of North American Plants: A Historical Survey with Special Reference to Eastern Indian Tribes

by Charlotte Erichsen-Brown
Dover Publications, c1989
ISBN: 048625951X













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