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Spotted Jewelweed SUMMER 2016, VOLUME 17, ISSUE 3 A PUBLICATION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY Native Plant to Know Spotted Jewelweed Impatiens capensis by Angelique Mori simple, elliptic leaves are three to 10 loose clusters like tiny drop earrings, centimetres (one to four inches) long, one to three blossoms per stalk The delicate, pendant blooms of long-stalked with some rounded teeth. (known as a pedicel). The bilaterally spotted jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) The upper leaves are alternate while symmetrical blooms have three petals grace the moist, shadier corners of our the lower leaves are opposite. and an elegant, curving spur. The native plant garden in Hamilton, Delightful, trumpet- blooms appear from summer to early Ontario. This dainty jewel of summer shaped flowers autumn. The fruit is a appeared uninvited in our backyard dangle in ribbed pod up to two and quickly became a favourite with centimetres (one inch) long birds and butterflies. containing five vegetal Quick-in-the-hand, horns-of-plenty, springs which touch-me-not and wild ladies’ earrings build up are some of the colourful monikers considerable used to describe this common, compressive herbaceous annual. There are two force by water jewelweeds native to north temperate absorption. A and boreal North America, the second gentle touch will ANGELIQUE MORI being pale jewelweed (Impatiens trigger vigorous pallida). It’s easy to distinguish the two contortions by flower colour: Impatiens capensis is that can ILLUSTRATION BY orange with dark blotches, while I. produce a pallida is pale yellow. perceptible Impatiens is Latin for “impatient,” referring to the plant’s startling method of seed dispersal: when touched, the ripe pods explode (no doubt the source of the sobriquet “touch-me-not”). The species name capensis means “of the Cape of Good Hope,” where the plant was erroneously believed to have originated. Pallida means “pale” or “pallid.” The smooth, translucent branches have glaucous, hollow stems. The Continued on page 15 The Blazing Star is... Editorial The Blazing Star is published quarterly (April, August, November, February) by the North American Native Plant Society The Ontario government passed into law Bill 37, the Invasive Species Act (ISA), on (NANPS). Contact [email protected] November 3, 2015. The act is intended to manage invasive plant and animal for editorial deadlines and for advertising species threatening Ontario’s ecological biodiversity. According to Bill Mauro, rates. The views expressed herein are Ontario’s Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry, the province’s taxpayers pay those of the authors and not necessarily more than $90 million dollars annually to fight invasives while the annual cost to those of NANPS. Canada’s agriculture and forestry sectors is upwards of $7.3 billion each year. The The North American Native Plant Society ISA also provides the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry with is dedicated to the study, conservation, extraordinary monitoring and enforcement powers. cultivation and restoration of North The Invasive Species Act is intended America’s native flora. to support “the prevention, early Summer 2016 detection, rapid response and Volume 17, Issue 3 eradication of invasive species”; give ISSN 2291-8280 Ontario the tools to ban the possession and transportation of certain invasive Editor: Irene Fedun species; allow for earlier intervention Production: Bea Paterson and rapid response to keep invasive Proofreader: Eileen Atkinson Printed by: Guild Printing, species from spreading… and help Markham, Ontario ensure compliance through modernized inspection and © North American Native Plant Society enforcement measures.” Images © the photographers and NANPS supports Bill 37 in principle, illustrators, text © the authors. however specific gaps within the Act All rights reserved. weaken its effectiveness and require North American Native Plant Society, collective action. In light of our formerly Canadian Wildflower Society, mission (the study, conservation, READ LINDA is a registered charitable society, no. cultivation and restoration of North 130720824 RR0001. America’s native flora), we believe Donations to the society are tax- HOTOGRAPH BY there is a need for: P creditable in Canada. 1) Immediate, proactive creation of Lobelia cardinalis (cardinal flower) NANPS Membership: government initiatives for key CAN$25/YEAR WITHIN CANADA, stakeholders to develop US$25/YEAR OUTSIDE CANADA innovative resources in their collaborative fight against invasive plants. Join online or send cheque or money 2) Innovative investment in the talents, skills and knowledge of Ontario’s order to North American Native Plant existing conservation leaders and associations to create “tools” for the ISA Society, Box 84, Stn D, Toronto, ON toolbox. M9A 4X1. 3) Clarity with respect to the classification and definitions of invasive plant Telephone: (416) 631-4438. species and the operationalization of the degree of risk associated with each E-mail: [email protected] of these species. Web: www.nanps.org. 4) The creation of ISA-related educational curricula and training materials for Facebook: www.facebook.com/nativeplant Twitter: @tnanps elementary and secondary schools, Ministry of Training, horticultural and landscaping programs at colleges and universities, commercial nurseries and Board of Directors: landscapers, farmers and landowners, and staff of the Ministry of Natural Honorary President: James A. French Resources and Forestry, provincial parks and conservation authorities. Vice-President: Adam Mohamed 5) Creation of training programs for ISA inspectors, certification programs on Secretary: Miriam Henriques the identification of invasive plant species, native plants, non-native plants, Treasurer: Janice Keil species at risk (and “weeds”), cataloguing and evaluating the educational Colleen Cirillo merits of existing documentation and apps used for identification of invasive Bill Ford species. Alison Howson Alice Kong We hope to work with the Ontario government and other concerned agencies Myles Mackenzie and environmental non-profit organizations to strengthen this critical legislation. Matey Matov Howard Meadd Bill Ford Harold Smith NANPS director 2 NEWSLETTER OF THE NORTH AMERICAN NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY SUMMER 2016 Specializing in container grown NANPS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Trees & Shrubs native to Ontario Saturday, October 15, 2016 Toronto Botanical Gardens 777 Lawrence Avenue East at Leslie Street Toronto Keynote speaker: Brendon Larson, assistant professor in the Department of Environment and Resource Studies at the University of Waterloo will talk about Redefining our Relationship with Nature: The Case of Invasive Species. Mini native plant sale. Native Plant Species Website Blooms The Local Scoop, having established roots strong enough to withstand droughts in the summer and ice storms in winter, has grown hardy and wants to branch out. So, the Scoop has planted the Native Plant Species, a website dedicated to (705) 466-6290 propagating a community of enthusiasts, to share the dirt, [email protected] spread the word, and pollinate each community with the www.notsohollowfarm.ca benefits of growing native plant species. Visit www.nativeplantspecies.com. So dig in. Share your stories, your photos, your successes, Design & Consulting services available by OALA member your failures, and information about native plant species in your local area. Contribute, ask the Scoop questions, and give advice about native plant species. Help raise awareness of native plant species, pollinators and other wildlife. An ecosystem is more than a single plant. A native plant community florum is more than a single voice. So let's get growing! ADAM MOHAMED ADAM ARTOON BY C NEWSLETTER OF THE NORTH AMERICAN NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY SUMMER 2016 3 Letter to the Editor Pollinators Paradise Project Dear Editor, even here, it is nectar and not pollen Volunteers with the Pollinators that is being stolen, and these same Paradise Project have been busily I found the Rock Elm article in the bees have adequate tongue lengths for planting a “pollinator corridor” of winter 2016 issue of The Blazing Star other flower species. Even bees that do native plants that will provide food interesting and informative. My reason no pollen collection themselves and shelter for pollinators across for writing is technical in nature, and typically rob, infiltrate or parasitize Hamilton, Ontario. Organized by to do with pollination biology. I had the pollen resources of nests of bees Environment Hamilton and the heard that elms were wind-pollinated. that do collect pollen, and thus Hamilton Naturalists’ Club, with Author Bill Moses notes anecdotal pollinate by proxy. support from the Ontario Trillium evidence of bees "working the If the bees Bill saw visiting elm Foundation and Hamilton Future flowers," but he makes a troubling flowers were collecting pollen then, by Fund, the ambitious project knows off-hand comment about this valid virtue of their fuzzy bodies that brush no social, political or religious observation. against flowers, they would necessarily boundaries. Plantings have Bill says, "I suspect now that they have been acting as pollinators, since occurred at Victory and must have been just gathering pollen the stamens and stigmas of elm Community Gardens, Hamilton and not playing a role in the flowers are both external, contained Downtown Mosque, many reproductive process." To be fair, he within the same flower and in very elementary and secondary schools, explicitly prefaces
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