Jewelweed

Alternative forms

• jewel-weed

Origin

From jewel + weed.

Full definition of jewelweed

Noun

1. (US) Impatiens, especially Impatiens capensis and Impatiens pallida.
• 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 136:he could still see a flower here and there smile up at him – the tawny red of the jewel-weed, and the close-tufted ball of the ‘mountain snow.’