it works for bee stings & bug bites as well poison ivy. it's still a little early for ripe pods, but I will have some in a few weeks. plant it where you want it. does not transplant well (even without a 2-day trip). Here is a link that might be useful: Trade List

Cindip63, I bought some from Naturescapes of Beaufort, SC. https://naturescapesofbeaufort.com/product/impatiens-capensis-touch-me-not-jewelweed/ They are not shipped in pots, but the roots are encased in a fist-full of hard mud. I planted the plants just as they were, encased in a ball of hard mud, into soil filled pots, and they grew successfully ...all except one, on which I tried to soften and remove the hard mud with water before planting and it died immediately. I grew them outside in USDA zone 8a, in the shade, in plastic pots, sitting on a soil filled tray to catch the seed. They never bloomed but they produce seed without blooming. That type of seed tends to fall straight down instead of being propelled further away. This type of bloomless seeding happens nearly invisibly. The only reason I noticed is because throughout the summer I frequently picked up the pots and examined the plants very closely, and eventually saw the seed pods under the leaves. The pods were the same color as the leaves and were held on the stem horizontally just like the leaves, and the pod was so close to the underside of a leaf that it took me a long time to notice the seed pods even though I had been looking at them every time I examined a plant. Of course my mind was fixated on blooms, not seed pods. The seeds did not fall into the parent's pot, but into the soil filled tray under the pots. The parent plants died over the winter outside, but when I saw new leaves emerging from the soil filled tray in February, I moved the pots out of the soil filled tray and put the pots on the ground. When the parent plants died, they simply vanished. In March, one of the pots that contained a parent plant was sitting on the ground and I noticed a seedling growing out of the pot's drainage hole which was located at the bottom of the pot but on the side of the pot. It looked like the top of it's roots were exposed, so I'm guessing the seed fell beside the pot, yet germinated and rooted in the drainage hole. I guess I'll have to cut the pot open down the side in order to save the seedling. It appears that even though my plants never bloomed, they reproduced by seed as many plants as I originally bought. This year I will put these seedlings in a little more sun to see if they will bloom, because the only reason I want to grow this plant is for hummingbird nectar.

I have not been able to grow the wild jewel weed which herbalists use for poison ivy in our Montana climate.I am not sure if it is growable in Colorado either since it is prefers the humidity of the eastern states and another likes the humidity on the western coast.. It is an impatien,, not sure if there any substitute for it in our drier climate or not..In the other hand my son who lives in Poison ivy land keeps a bottle of it from the local health food store just for the poison ivy..I would ask at a local nursery or call an herbalist they always know what grows around their areas..

I agree with the identification of the primary plant, but think the seedlings are something else. Impatiens, a rampant reseeder in my yard, has a large and distinctive cotelydon.