Balsaminaceae Impatiens capensis Meerb.

Jewelweed

Ojibwa - Dye, Yellow

Use documented by:
Smith, Huron H., 1932, Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of Milwaukee 4:327-525, page 425

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Scientific name: Impatiens capensis Meerb.
USDA symbol: IMCA (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Jewelweed
Family: Balsaminaceae
Family (APG): Balsaminaceae
Native American Tribe: Ojibwa
Use category: Dye
Use sub-category: Yellow
Notes: Whole plant used to make a yellow dye, the material boiled in the mixture with rusty nails.

RECRD: 211 id: 17770

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