HERB - Re: jewelweed

[aleed]

It's also known as spotted touch-me-not.  I can't recall without a book
what the leaves look like, but when the flowers are in bloom they're a
bright orange, spotted, and shaped rather like one section of a columbine 
flower. The fun part is when they go to seed--you touch a
seed pod and it flies away.

Drea

 On Fri, 28 May 1999, Mike and Pat Luco wrote:

> What does jewelweed look like, any web pictures? From the earlier descriptions,
> I have had little luck in developing a working mind image.  I don't think I
> have ever seen it.  At least around the Houston area it might not grow.  If
> this is so does anyone know if you can get the plant parts in a tincture or
> ointment?  I have some serious poison ivy removal (the dogs keep infecting my
> wife, who is more sensitive than me) to undertake this weekend and I would like
> to be protected from the residual itching.  Poison ivy never seemed to bother
> me when I was younger, then when I was around 20 and picking berries I
> developed a serious case that spread down my leg.  Ever since then I get it
> occasionally, though not as bad as my wife.
> 
> Henri and Antea
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