Well well well, what do we have here? Looks like we have some Jewelweed on our hands! An easy way to identify Jewelweed is by pouring a bit of water and watching it become all shiny, like a JEWEL! You can use Jewelweed by crushing it into a salve for bites, burns, or even poison ivy. | U.S. Forest Service - National Forests in North Carolina

Explosive fruit? Also called "touch-me-not," pale jewelweed has seed pods that explode when touched, ejecting seeds several feet in the air in less than 5 milliseconds. Credit: Mason Heberling | Carnegie Museum of Natural History

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I finally collected jewelweed seeds 🙌🏽 Jewelweed is often called Mother Nature’s antidote, especially for poison ivy, poison oak, and stinging nettle. Its sap soothes itching, calms inflammation, and can even counteract urushiol, the oil in poison ivy that causes rashes. Traditionally, people crushed the stems and leaves to release the juice and applied it right to the skin. Fittingly, jewelweed tends to grow in the same damp shady places as poison ivy almost as if nature planted the remedy be