North Carolina Wildflowers

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Balsaminaceae>Impatiens

Yellow Jewelweed (Impatiens pallida) Yellow Jewelweed (Impatiens pallida)
Buncombe Co., NC
8 July 2006

Common in rich, moist habitats in the NC mountains (rare in the piedmont), this is the same genus of the common garden bedding plant Impatiens

Yellow Jewelweed (Impatiens pallida) Yellow Jewelweed (Impatiens pallida)
Buncombe Co., NC
8 July 2006

Yellow Jewelweed (Impatiens pallida) Yellow Jewelweed (Impatiens pallida)
Buncombe Co., NC
8 July 2006

Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Common names from personal experience and supplemented by the following resources USDA plants website, Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, and NatureServe.


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