University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin State Herbarium (WIS)
v0037664WIS
86d925c2-2c91-4bb6-ae16-6b0886e256b2
Impatiens capensis Meerb.
Balsaminaceae
Middleton, Beth A.
81
1975-08-21
1975-08-21
United States, Wisconsin, Columbia, Portage. Colombia Energy Center property, 3 mi S. of Portage, 0.5 mi. W. of Hwy 51.
43.47518422 -89.43382587 +-1138m.
T12N R09E sec33
Latitude/Longitude was derived from the Township, Range, Section location. This causes an imprecision.
Disturbed rocky edge of cooling lake rooted in sand. Flowers orange, stems hollow. Growing at a peculiar height above cooling lake (ca. 2ft above water level), & forming a line of grwoth parallel to water. Perhaps this is the level of former sedge meadow before bulldozing along dike.