FREE: Jewel Weed Native Americans use this

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I use this plant to make soap with every year. Native Americans use this plant to ease the effects of poison ivy, sumac, poison oak, stinging nettle, rashes, etc. Any time I come into contact with plant poisons, I wash the affected area with this plant if it is available. I also carry soap made with this plant to use when I hike, garden, fish, hunt, etc. The seeds are difficult to collect as they "pop" whenever they feel movement and disperse over several feet. Hummingbirds love this plant and keep most seed scattered before I can collect them. My foraging friend Bearcat and I also gather this plant and sell to soapmakers. You can make good money with a patch of it, or make your own soap. It is most definately one of my favorite plants. This auction is for twenty difficultly gathered seed.

Today I went to gather the last of the seed from my patch It's really neat to walk by the plants and listen to the popping sounds. There must have been a dozen hummingbirds helping pop the seed pods. Each pod only carries three or four seed if youre lucky enough to catch them all. These plants do prefer a somewhat moist area and the flowers are really unique. My friend and I are foragers and gather most of our seed and herbs from our hikes in the Appalachian Mountains. My supply will be limited as we are already getting orders for this seed.