September 15th, 2012. We drove over
Patterson Gap Road from Betty’s Creek Road to Persimmon Road. Patterson Gap
lies on the Tennessee Valley Divide in the Chattahoochee National Forest. The
road is graveled and water erosion has produced some rough sections.
We were on the southwest side of
the Tennessee Valley Divide where the environment was drier. It was here, still
at the higher altitude that we found our first Impatiens pallida (Pale
Touch-me-not) that we’d never encountered before.
The flower
The leaf is very similar to
Impatiens capensis (Jewelweed)
Side views of the flower.
Close up of a flower
Impatiens pallida (Pale
Touch-me-not) is native to the United States where its found from Maine west to
Minnesota and south to Oklahoma, Arkansas, to Alabama and Georgia; it’s not
been documented in Florida. In Georgia, its been documented in Towns, Union,
Murray and Walker counties in North Georgia.
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Identification Resources:
Natural
and Naturalized Plants of the Carolinas and Georgia: Impatiens pallida (Pale Jewelweed, Pale Touch-me-not, Yellow Jewelweed, Yellow Touch-me-not)
Distribution:
United
States Department of Agriculture Plants Database:
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