This next puzzler is a a plant that I love! It comes in both yellow and orange flowers and is often found growing in shady places, often side-by-side with poison ivy. When I was a girl I remember my older brother Don taking me on a hike in some fields near my house and showing me how the tight green, small seed pod on this plant would LAUNCH the seeds into the air when a finger came even close to touching the pod. I was amazed! And from then on, whenever I saw this plant, I would get a gleeful laugh by touching the seeds and watching the seeds spring out! What fun!
Here is a photo:
Do you recognize this plant? Have you also launched the seeds into space by touching the full, green pods that hang by the dainty leaves?
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I believe it is jewel weed!
Jewelweed
Correct! Thanks for reading!
Yes, good answer!
Yah jewel weed