Jewelweed – Impatiens Capensis: Edible & Medicinal Uses of the Snappiest Wild Plant
In Ojibwe, omakakiibag sometimes refers to Jewelweed, the snappiest edible and medicinal herb. It’s handy to have around if you like clumsily rooting through wild plants like me, and end up grazing yourself with stinging nettle or worse – poison ivy. Jewelweed is so named because of the way the dew beads on it. Sometimes …