How To Identify Jewel Weed, Spotted Touch Me Not - Medicinal Plant Identification

Hey guys in this video we learn how to identify jewel weed or spotted touch me not, a very popular medicinal plant for helping with poison ivy and bug bites. Jewel weed is an easy plant to identify with it's unique and very colorful flowers that have three petals and a horn or trumpet like shape to them. The inside of the flowers have orange and red colored spots that run all down the throat of the flower, which is where it gets the first part of its name spotted touch me not. The latter part comes from its small seedpod that will burst open with seeds when touched. The alternate growing leaves of jewel weed are ovate to lance shaped with dull teeth running along the margins of the leaf. The petiole will have a red tinge to it that runs up the leaf stem to the node of the main stem. The main stem doesn't have many unique shapes, however it is semi-translucent in appearance because of its juices. The juices of jewel weed come from rainy weather and in the main stem of the plant we will see large bumps where the juice and water has collected. These bumps get larger the further you go down the plant, and the stem gets more woody. Jewel weed loves to grow in shaded moist areas and can grow from three and a half feet tall to five or six feet tall in some areas. It's a colonizing plant that spreads out by its seeds and root system, so where you find one you will find a lot of them.

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