156 YELLOW AND ORANGE 



SPOTTED TOUCH-ME-NOT ; JEWEL- 

 WEED: Silver Cap: Lady's Ear-drop: Snap 

 Weed: Wild Balsam: Wild Lady's Slipper. 

 / Jmpatiens biflora. 



Touch-me-not Family. June — Sept. 



A smooth-stemmed, branching plant, 2-5 feet 

 high, found on brooksides and in moist, shady 

 places. Nova Scotia to Oregon, south to Mis- 

 souri and Florida. 

 Flowers — Yellow, more or less spotted with red- 

 dish brown; sac longer than it is broad, 

 tapering to an incurved spur. Seed 

 pods burst when touched. 

 Leaves — Long-stemmed, coarsely toothed. 



PALE TOUCH-ME-NOT: I. pallida. 



Flowers pale yellow, sparingly dotted with 

 reddish brown; sac broader than long with 

 short spur. Most abundant northward. 



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