#yellow jewelweed

[oliviarosaline]

Pale Jewelweed

Impatiens pallida

Native to much of eastern North America, pale jewelweed prefers wet soils in bottomland forests, along streams, etc... Jewelweed is also an old remedy for poison ivy rashes. Hummingbirds love the flowers as well. The pictured plants were growing en masse in a bottomland forest next to the Big River.

Sept. 1st, 2021

Washington County, Missouri, USA

Olivia R. Myers

@oliviarosaline

[aphermion]

A Yellow Jewelweed (Impatiens pallida) with sport variegation on its leaves.

[uxbridge]

The flowers before they begin to fade

[sheahuntphotography]

Some gorgeous golden jewelweed with just a kiss of dew

02/09/2024

[wildflowers-of-southern-ontario]

Pale Jewelweed Impatiens pallida Balsaminaceae

Photographs taken on September 30, 2022, at Scenic Caves Nature Adventures, The Blue Mountains, Ontario, Canada.

[reality-detective]

🌿 Discover the Benefits of Jewelweed!

Unlock the natural healing powers of Jewelweed! This vibrant plant, often found near streams and damp areas, is renowned for its soothing properties. Jewelweed is frequently used to relieve skin irritations, especially from poison ivy, and can also help with inflammation and minor injuries. 🌸

Benefits:

- Alleviates itching and irritation.

- Reduces inflammation and swelling.

- Natural remedy for poison ivy and insect bites.

Where to Find It:

Jewelweed thrives in moist, shaded environments like forests and near water sources. Look for its distinctive orange or yellow flowers and succulent stems. 🤔

[skelevenn]

Repostober 27 - 2015

A small series of "Flower Language" (and leaves) portraits for some gems. I definitely did research (though couldn't tell you the sources anymore) and picked stuff out for all the major characters but only finished these three. Actually I found the notes doc I made, helpfully with reference pictures, so I can tell you what each of these ones are and what they mean! Under the cut.

Amethyst

Clematis (large light purple flowers) - Artifice/Trickery

Larch (pink and berry-looking) - Audacity

Sloe (blue berries) - Difficulty

London Pride (white with pink spots and middle) - Frivolity

Jewelweed (purple heart-shaped flowers) - Impatience

Coriander (background foliage, small ruffled leaves) - Hidden Worth

Peridot

Hollyhock (white, sort of trumpet shaped flowers) - Ambition

Euphorbia (small yellow flowers in clusters of three) - Persistence

Rose, yellow (...I think you know what a rose looks like.) - Jealousy

Clotbur (large three-pointed leaves) - Rudeness

Lapis Lazuli

Mourning Bride (large bunches of tiny white flowers) - "I have lost all"

Anemone (white star shaped flowers with deep blue middle) - Forsaken

Columbine, blue (Small white flower with long periwinkle outer petals) - Desertion

Jacob's Ladder (small purple flowers with long stamens) - "Come down"

Aloe vera (long thin spiked leaves) - Grief

Oak Leaves (wiggly? hopefully recognizable lol) - Bravery

I remember looking at a lot of different sources to get the kinds of meanings I was looking for. Not the usual stuff for bouquets that all mean varying levels of love and friendship and whatnot. So some of these could be kind of made up! You can never trust the internet. But I tried.

[vandaliatraveler]

Despite its undignified name, Muddy Creek is a lovely mountain stream that normally runs fast and clear on its steep descent to Cheat River. But after a week of heavy rain in NC-WV, the stream looked a bit murky yesterday. Not even the sediment washing away from the mountains dims its beauty in my eyes. And the enchanting, moss-encrusted forest along its bank holds its own late summer treasures.

From top: great blue lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica), which pairs beautifully with cardinal flower to provide late summer color in a native wildflower garden; white wood aster (Eurybia divaricata), which is the most common of the shade-loving white asters in this area; crooked-stemmed aster (Symphyotrichum prenanthoides), also known as zigzag aster, whose clasping, spatula-shaped leaves distinguish it from big-leaf aster, another woods-loving aster with lavender flowers; blue-stemmed goldenrod (Solidago caesia), whose spreading, yellow-flowered stems provide stunning late-season color in a native wildflower garden; an intensely-green collage of moss, woodland stonecrop (Sedum ternatum), Christmas fern (Polystichum acrostichoides) and heartleaf foamflower (Tiarella cordifolia), which I am trying hard to reproduce in my own native wildflower shade garden; the shaggy-maned stem of Coker's Amanita (Amanita cokeri), one of the most impressive mushrooms of Appalachia's summer forests; beech-drops (Epifagus virginiana), a parasitic plant that grows and subsists on beach tree roots; the bright red berries of false Solomon's seal (Maianthemum racemosum); yellow jewelweed (Impatiens pallida), whose explosive seed pods give the plant its other common name, pale touch-me-not; and narrow-leaved tick-trefoil (Desmodium paniculatum), also known as panicled tick-trefoil, a late summer pea whose sticky seed pods commonly hitch rides on shoes and boots.

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

My Garden Flowers Part 8

All photos mine.

In order of appearance:

211. White Avens (Geum canadense) This was here before I got there and as she's native she survived the purge I did of the weeds.

212. Orange Coneflower (Rudbeckia fulgida) I didn't plant this, but she's in lots of places now and she's not always this orange, often leaning more toward amber, but she is always very pretty.

213. Tall White Lettuce (Prenanthes altissima) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet.

214. American Red Raspberry (Rubus strigosus) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet.

215. Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet.

216. Barren Strawberry (Waldsteinia fragarioides) The leaves look a lot like strawberry leaves, the flowers look like if strawberry flowers were yellow, and they make a red berry! But it tastes woody and bland. Hence the name. I still want to make a jam of them if I ever get enough of them, though.

217. Tufted Hairgrass (Deschampsia ceaspitosa) Don't mind the bull thistle behind it that I wasn't able to remove, but the foliage of the grass is a nice blue-green and the flowers are, well, tufts.

218. Largeflower Bellwort (Uvularia grandiflora) The flowers are always bowed as if wilting. They're springtime flowers only.

219. Spotted Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) One of the only two Impatiens species native this far north. The flowers of this one are orange. She likes moist to wet spots and can handle full sun to full shade.

220. Fringed Loosestrife (Lysimachia ciliata) Yellow flowers in summer, dark red leaves in autumn.

221. Thicket Creeper (Parthenocissus vitacea) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet.

222. Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet.

223. Black Cherry (Prunus nigra) Not pictured as I haven't got pictures yet.

224. Woodland Sunflower (Helianthus divaricata) A sunflower that can handle shade! Not heavy shade, but a considerable amount.

225. Fringed Willowherb (Epilobium ciliatum) I didn't plant this, but she has cute tiny flowers and she has tasty leaves.

226. Starry False Solomon's Seal (Maianthemum stellatum) Little star-shaped white flowers become candy-striped red berries.

227. Narrow-Leaved Wild Leek (Allium burdickii) Like her close cousin, A. tricoccum, she only matures enough to flower after seven years, so this is special.

228. Mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet.

229. Common Selfheal (Prunella vulgaris vulgaris) A common garden weed but she's native to my range of acceptability for my garden, so she stays wherever she's not in the way.

230. Bog Bean (Menyanthes trifoliata) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet.

231. Red Wakerobin (Trillium erectum) Her stem broke the first year I had her. I was afraid she'd die but I was able to splint her and she survived to flower again the following year for this picture!

232. Marsh Violet (Viola palustris) Small round leaves grow close to the ground and flowers come up on stalks a few inches above. As the name suggests she prefers things wet.

233. Duck Potato (Saggittaria latifolia) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet.

234. Purple avens (Geum rivale) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet.

235. Maypop (Passiflora incarnata) I got two cultivars and they sadly didn't survive the winter. Maybe the wild type would fare better if I could get my hands on that.

236. American Bur-Reed (Sparganium americanum) Fluffy ball flowers. She likes things moist to wet.

237. Heart-Leaved Alexanders (Zizia aptera) She's not quite as showy as her cousin, Zizia aurea, but a nice little plant in a moist to wet area.

238. Canada Burnet (Sanguisorba canadensis) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet.

239. Oval-Leaved Milkweed (Asclepias ovalifolia) Her second flowering year. She's considerably shorter than most milkweeds. Her cream-coloured flowers are a lovely addition to a garden. Especially if you're tempted to get the white cultivar of swamp milkweed, oval-leaf milkweed also likes wet areas and is well-behaved. Why not get her instead?

240. Redbud (Cercis canadensis) Not pictured as I haven't got pictures yet.

[deepcoraldragon]

[alchemiccolored]

If you’re up for it, top 5 favorite prairie plants and why? Or are there any parasitic prairie plants that you know of? Where I’m at we’ve got California Dodder and mistletoe but they’re the only ones I know about

OH THATS TOUGH.

5. Andropogon gerardii - Big Bluestem: basically THE prairie grass. you cannot have a tallgrass prairie without a tall grass lol.

4. Carex buxbaumii - Buxbaum's sedge: I can't in good conscience do this top 5 without including a sedge. all sedges are identifiable by their triangular stalks- "sedges have edges!" I'm still not fantastic at identifying specific species, but carex buxbaumii is one i'm pretty confident in, since i harvested them at my old internship! i couldn't find a great pic for it but their seed heads look like mint chocolate :3

3. Eryngium yuccifolium - Rattlesnake Master: aside from having the COOLEST FUCKING NAME POSSIBLY, this is also a really unique prairie plant! they don't have obvious "flowers," instead having a spiky green ball on a long stem (its still a flower though). despite their painful looking leaves, these guys aren't too bad to accidentally rub up against, especially if you've got bull thistle and common teasel in the same area (FUCK teasel).

2. Silphium perfoliatum - Cup Plant: really, I could go with any of the silphiums but cup plant is just such a cool plant. all silphiums get really tall and have beautiful big yellow flowers, but what makes cup plant special is its cups! where the leaves meet the (really cool, square) stem, they completely surround it and form a cup that actually holds water after it rains. theyre great for finding bugs since they have lots of nooks and crannies (and water)

1. Impatiens capensis - Jewelweed/Spotted Touch-me-not: not solely a prairie plant, but it's such a good one I gotta put it in here. it likes wetter environments when in full sun, which leads to it growing like ABSOLUTE CRAZY! they usually get to about 1-3' tall, but one that was at the end of a stream in full sun got to 6' at least. it's an impatiens so it spreads its seeds by fucken LAUNCHING them; very cool but also cmon i want to propagate you :( MOST importantly, though, it is a natural remedy for both poison ivy and stinging nettle. i'm not usually one for medicinal herbs but this plant has saved me lots of trouble (and money) by keeping those rashes down.

dodder my best friend dodder <3 i'm not sure if there are any other fully parasitic prairie plants, but wood betony is one i'm aware of that's hemiparasitic, getting some of its nutrients from other plants. i love parasitic plants, theyre so interesting...

[spoofyleaf]

HELLO

Favorite color

Favorite character

Least favorite character

Sun or moon

Favorite time of day

Ocean or space

Favorite type of flower

Butterflies or moths

Vamps or werewolves

Doors open or closed

Nosie or silence

Fire or water

Lava or ice

Idk I just dump random questions hope this isn't a bother!

Hiya!

Black (around #1a1818), red ( around #402727), yellow (around #f0c473) and green (around #596957) :)

Ao Lie, Red Son, Nezha, Macaque, Jin and Yin (i'm so good at picking one fav idk what you're talking about)

Yellow Tusk

Moon

Hours before dawn

Space

jewelweed!!

moths

idk, vamps? maybe?

silence

water

lava >:))

not a bother at all, ty for the question dump!!

[jadedandconfusedao3]

Chapter 11 - Remember Me?

Draco apparated to Theo’s house in the small hours of the morning. The experience last night had left him feeling raw. He had admitted to Hermione that he loved her, and they had made love for hours afterwards. She hadn’t said it back and he hadn’t expected her to, but she didn’t turn him away or object when the madness took hold. He had originally thought the Amortentia idea had been stupid, but he realised that he now owed Daphne his thanks.

As soon as he reappeared Pansy came running toward him down the hallway. Her makeup was smeared, and she was still wearing the dress from last night. Her bare feet made barely any sound at her approach; her shoes probably abandoned in her panic.

“I don’t know what to do,” she whispered. She was chewing on her nails, a habit she hadn’t done in years. “He’s not responsive and I don’t know what he’s taken. None of the bottles are labelled.”

Draco followed her into Theo’s bedroom. It was pristine as usual, the bottles discarded on the side table the only sign that anything untoward was happening. That and the sprawled lank figure in the bed. Draco rearranged Theo’s limbs into a safer position and cast a diagnostic charm.

The reading glowed green, yellow and orange cycling through Theo’s body, changing from minute to minute. Draco surveyed it silently before picking up the vials and sniffing them one by one.

Draco frowned. “If the readout and my nose are correct, he’s taken a hefty dose of Dreamless sleep. Relatively harmless if taken irregularly but some of these results are concerning.” Turning back to the centre of the room he called out, “Ralby.”

The little elf popped into existence and looked at Draco with wide eyes. “Yes, Mister Malfoy?”

“How often is Theo taking these dreamless sleep potions?” Draco cornered the house elf crowding in on its space.

“Master Theo has not been taking the potions at all lately, but three days ago, he came home very sad and spent the day in his lab.” Ralby looked over at Theo sadly, “He’s been like this ever since.”

The readouts flickered slightly, one section turning yellow from the green before stabilising again.

Draco sighed, “Ralby, I’m going to need to use the lab to brew for a couple of hours. Did anything happen before that day? Anything at all we should know?”

The little elf hesitated, shuffling from foot to foot.

“What happened Ralby!” Draco demanded.

“Master was happy!” Ralby objected, “The Miss had been coming here every day and he was so happy.” He hesitated again, “They left together that day. They went somewhere. Since then, I haven’t seen her, and he’s been like this.”

Draco looked sadly at the little elf. “I’ll need Bicorn Horn, Mandrake Root, Jewelweed, Salamander Blood, Griffin claws and Erumpent Fluid. Bring them to me down in the lab.”

He began to walk off when Pansy grabbed his arm. “What do I do?”

He ran a hand down his face. “If any of the read outs turn orange come get me immediately. He should wake up in a couple of hours and I’d like to have these ready.”

She nodded and he disappeared into the lab. After several hours of brewing, he joined her back upstairs with the two potions in his hand. She had dark circles under her eyes and her perfect nails were worn down to the skin.

She looked up as he entered her voice tremulous, “He hasn’t moved.”

Draco nodded and went to observe the diagnostic. His brain waves were starting to fire back up. He’d be awake soon. With a sigh, he perched on the edge of the bed and waited for him to come to.

The first sign that Theo was awake was a groan followed by a kind of slow flailing. As he sat up and rubbed his eyes before he noticed Draco.

“Oh.” He deadpanned.

“Yes,” Draco replied. “Oh. What the fuck were you thinking? You didn’t come to the club last night so Pansy came to check on you and couldn’t wake you up.”

Theo’s eyes darted over to where Pansy sat curled up in the chair and gave her an apologetic expression. “I’m sorry. I forgot about the club. Were you ok without me?”

Pansy shot out of her chair and stormed over to the bed poking her finger into his chest. “I don’t give a shit about the club. I was worried about you. I’m concerned about you!”

Theo grimaced. “Look I’m sorry.” He fell back onto the pillows and place an arm over his eyes. “I did something stupid, and I needed to forget for a little bit ok?”

 “Three days is not a little bit Theo,” Pansy objected.

Theo lifted his arm and glared, “It is technically only two. It took me a bit of time to track down shrivel figs at this time of year.”

“Shrivel figs,” Draco’s voice was cold. “You’ve been brewing Euphoria again!”

Draco blinked and tried to push away the memories. Finding found Theo like this over and over again at different times and in different places. Euphoria wasn’t in itself a dangerous drug, but it was ridiculously addictive and often destroyed the lives of people who overused it. People like Seventh Year Theo and Post-War Theo.

Theo sighed. “I just needed it ok. There’s no more. It’s all gone.”

“Did you break up with her?” Draco pushed, “Is that why?”

Pansy snarled, “If she hurt you, I will end her.”

Theo shot up and pointed at Pansy. “We didn’t break up and this is not her fault.” He gulped. “I did this to myself. All she did was go along with what I wanted. I just didn’t realise how stupid an idea it was until afterward.”

Draco cautioned, “We can’t help you if you don’t let us in Theo.”

Theo looked away and avoided their eyes, “She’s the best thing that has ever happened to me. It’s not her fault I’m a dumbass.”

Pansy snaked a hand onto his shoulder, her voice gentle. “You’re not a dumbass Theo. Whoever she is, she’s lucky to have you.”

Theo laughed; the sound bitter. “That couldn’t be further from the truth. If anything, I’m lucky to have her.”

Draco cleared his throat and held the two potions out to his friend. “Take these. There’s more downstairs in the lab. Your diagnostics were showing some yellow and orange shading through the brain. These should help you come good in the meantime until your body naturally heals.”

Theo took them and sat up. He downed both potions, placing the empty bottles on the side table. He clasped his hands together and looked down.

“Thank you,” He hesitated, “I don’t deserve you.”

Pansy lunged forward and wrapped him in a bear hug. “Of course, you do! You’re the sweetest, and kindest person I know. I just wish you’d open up to us. Not everything has to be a life-or-death secret.”

Draco was watching Theo like a hawk. He’d only ever seen Theo this messed up over Potter. Well, he now knew it had been Potter. He was the only person who made sense in the timeline, but this wasn’t him. Ralby had said it was a girl. It certainly looked like Theo was finally moving on and falling for someone new, but Draco was suspicious. He could handle Theo’s signature brand of breakdown that wasn’t a problem.

“Does she know?” He asked shifting slightly on the sheets, “Does she know what you came home and did to yourself?”

Theo looked at him over Pansy’s shoulder, “No. I haven’t seen her since.”

Draco barked out a laugh, “I thought you liked this girl! You disappeared for three days!”

“She knows I’m never free on Fridays,” Theo muttered, “But I’ll have to apologise for Thursday and Wednesday.”

Draco stood and dusted off his pants. There were still remnants of the potion-making process caught in them. He wanted to get back home to Hermione and he desperately needed some sleep.

“Are you going to be ok for Thursday this week? Blaise and Astoria were asking questions last time.” Draco asked.

Theo pushed himself up further in the bed. “I’ll be there.”

Draco nodded goodbye to them both and apparated away.

Read the rest on Ao3

[edufuns-blog]

The Benefits and Uses of Jewelweed

Introduction

Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) is a wild plant renowned for its medicinal properties. Commonly found in North America, this plant features orange or yellow flowers with red spots. Jewelweed is traditionally used to treat various skin issues and other health conditions. This article explores the benefits and uses of Jewelweed in detail.

[wildflowers-of-southern-ontario]

Pale Jewelweed Impatiens pallida Balsaminaceae

Photograph taken on September 30, 2022, at Scenic Caves Nature Adventures, The Blue Mountains, Ontario, Canada.