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--Apple-Mail=_323FF72C-0682-470C-B449-E6322C6546B8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > From: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Subject: [ValleyNature] Himalayan Balsam (alien touch-me-not) in = Wolfville > Date: September 2, 2014 at 6:21:23 PM ADT >=20 > SEPT. 1, 2014 - Pat & I had a Labour Day walk in Wolfville along the = rail trail west of town. Not far east of Cherry Lane, on the old = railroad tracks, I spotted a couple of tall weeds sporting large pink = flowers. I recognized this plant as our third species of Impatiens, = alias jewelweed, touch-me-not, or (my own name?) hummingbird heaven. >=20 > Our two species with orange to yellow flowers are Impatiens capensis, = spotted touch-me-not, and Impatiens pallida, pale touch-me-not (as in = Zinck=92s 1998 Flora of Nova Scotia). (I hear that Marian Zinck and = Ruth Newell are working on more portable and updated version of the = FLORA of NS, which has been needed for a long time =97 in the meantime, = check any public or university or high school? library for easy access = to the 2-volume tome of 1998 =97 also much of the Flora of NS is = available on-line via the E. C. Smith Herbarium Web-site of Acadia = University.) The family is Balsaminaceae. >=20 > Zinck does not list a common name for the third species, Impatiens = glandulifera, which I believe is an alien species that is rumored to be = invasive. I have seen it in England, on Brier Island (where there is no = evidence of invasiveness that I have seen), and once in King=92s County, = where it was obviously planted by someone but subsequently disappeared. = Google the Latinized name above for info=92 and nice photos. Wikipedia = says it is native to the Himalayas, and is called =93Himalayan Balsam=94. = Zinck says its habitat is waste ground and roadside thickets, and its = range in N.S. is from Brier Island to Halifax and Pictou Counties. >=20 > Identification is easy from the conspicuous & large pink flowers plus = the whorled or opposite leaves (vs. alternate leaves in the other wild = Impatiens species). > _______________________________________________ > Nature mailing list > Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca > = http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidonnaturalists.= ca --Apple-Mail=_323FF72C-0682-470C-B449-E6322C6546B8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 <html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html = charset=3Dwindows-1252"></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space;"><br><div><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px;"><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, = 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">Jim Wolford <<a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>><br><= /span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>[ValleyNature] = Himalayan Balsam (alien touch-me-not) in = Wolfville</b><br></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">September 2, 2014 at = 6:21:23 PM ADT</span></div><br><div><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" = content=3D"text/html charset=3Dwindows-1252"><div style=3D"word-wrap: = break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space;"><div style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; = font-family: Arial;"><b>SEPT. 1, 2014</b> - Pat & I had a Labour Day = walk in <b>Wolfville </b>along the<b> rail trail </b>west of town. = Not far east of Cherry Lane, on the old railroad tracks, I spotted a = couple of tall weeds sporting large pink flowers. I recognized = this plant as our third species of <i>Impatiens</i>, alias jewelweed, = touch-me-not, or (my own name?) hummingbird heaven.</div><div = style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; min-height: = 15px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; = font-family: Arial;">Our two species with orange to yellow flowers are = <i>Impatiens capensis</i>, spotted touch-me-not, and <i>Impatiens = pallida</i>, pale touch-me-not (as in Zinck=92s 1998 Flora of Nova = Scotia). (I hear that Marian Zinck and Ruth Newell are working on = more portable and updated version of the FLORA of NS, which has been = needed for a long time =97 in the meantime, check any public or = university or high school? library for easy access to the 2-volume tome = of 1998 =97 also much of the Flora of NS is available on-line via the E. = C. Smith Herbarium Web-site of Acadia University.) The family is = Balsaminaceae.</div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; = font-family: Arial; min-height: 15px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: = 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial;">Zinck does not list a common = name for the third species, Impatiens glandulifera, which I believe is = an alien species that is rumored to be invasive. I have seen it in = England, on Brier Island (where there is no evidence of invasiveness = that I have seen), and once in King=92s County, where it was obviously = planted by someone but subsequently disappeared. Google the = Latinized name above for info=92 and nice photos. Wikipedia says = it is native to the Himalayas, and is called =93Himalayan Balsam=94. = Zinck says its habitat is waste ground and roadside thickets, and = its range in N.S. is from Brier Island to Halifax and Pictou = Counties.</div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: = Arial; min-height: 15px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; = font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial;">Identification is easy from the = conspicuous & large pink flowers plus the whorled or opposite leaves = (vs. alternate leaves in the other wild Impatiens = species).</div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Na= ture mailing list<br><a = href=3D"mailto:Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">Nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a><br>http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidonnat= uralists.ca<br></div><