Species
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Impatiens balfourii, 6360 Celorico da Beira, Portugal (c) zebedeugalinha, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2011-07-26

Impatiens balfourii Hook.fil.

Balfour's Touch-Me-Not, Balfour's jewelweed, Balfour's touch-me-not (EN), Balfour-Springkraut (DE)

No habitat climate 67 photographs
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Summary

Impatiens balfourii is a species of the genus Impatiens known by the common names Balfour's touch-me-not, Kashmir balsam, and poor man's orchid. It belongs to the family Balsaminaceae.

Text from Wikipedia, “Impatiens balfourii”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Impatiens

Impatiens is a genus of more than 1,000 species of flowering plants, widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere and the tropics. Together with the genus Hydrocera, Impatiens make up the family Balsaminaceae.

Text from Wikipedia, “Impatiens”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Balsaminaceae
Described by
Hook.fil.
Native to
Pakistan, West Himalaya
Wild records
3 in range· 1 open

Also known as Impatiens insubrica Beauverd; Impatiens mathildae Chiov.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species, and the archetype table has no figure for its genus or family.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record; three are needed for an envelope.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativePakistan, West Himalaya· introduced: Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Switzerland, France, Portugal, Spain, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Romania, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, Québec, Oregon, Washington, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, New York, California
Kew's description“annual” · “temperate”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 3 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 1 openly licensed one, which alone would put the marker 8 km away. 1592 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. Under a dozen records: treat the map as indicative. No climate envelope is derived for this species. 2 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) zebedeugalinha, some rights reserved (CC BY) (6); no rights reserved · CC0 (2).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Impatiens balfourii, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Chorological, ecological and taxonomic notes on the vascular flora of Hungary III
Gergely Király, Angéla Király (2018) · Botanikai Közlemények
Floral biology and breeding system of Impatiens balfourii (Balsaminaceae): An exotic species in extension in temperate areas
Anne‐Laure Jacquemart, Laurent Somme, Caroline Jain Beuguel Christelle Simon Colin, Muriel Quinet (2015) · Flora
Spread of alien invasive Impatiens balfourii in Europe and its temperature, light and soil moisture demands
Ulf Schmitz, Guido Dericks (2010) · Flora
The ability of seeds to float with water currents contributes to the invasion success of Impatiens balfourii and I. glandulifera
Kamil Najberek, Paweł Olejniczak, Katarzyna Berent, Magdalena Gąsienica-Staszeczek (2020) · Journal of Plant Research
The seeds of success: release from fungal attack on seeds may influence the invasiveness of alien Impatiens
Kamil Najberek, W. Pusz, Wojciech Solarz, Paweł Olejniczak (2018) · Plant Ecology
Factors limiting and promoting invasion of alien Impatiens balfourii in Alpine foothills
Kamil Najberek, Wolfgang Nentwig, Paweł Olejniczak, Wiesław Król (2017) · Flora
Two sides of the same coin: Does alien Impatiens balfourii fall into an ecological trap after releasing from enemies?
Kamil Najberek, Wojciech Solarz, W. Pusz, Katarzyna Patejuk (2020) · Environmental and Experimental Botany
Pótlások Magyarország edényes növényfajainak elterjedési atlaszához VI.
Csaba Molnár, Győző Haszonits, Ákos Malatinszky, Kristóf Süveges (2018) · Kitaibelia
Az Oenothera pycnocarpa Atk. & Bartl. Magyarországon, és kiegészítések néhány idegenhonos faj hazai elterjedéséhez
Csaba Molnár, Norbert Bauer, András István Csathó, Viktor Szigeti (2020) · Botanikai Közlemények
The distribution of the genus Impatiens L. (Balsaminaceae) in Medvednica Nature Park, Croatia.
Petra Cigić, Toni Nikolić, Miško Plazibat, Vladimir Hršak (2003) · University of Zagreb University Computing Centre (SRCE)
Sobre algunas plantas aloctonas
Josep Vigo (1976) · RECERCAT (Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya)
Weed species composition and abundance in the main coffee production systems and regions of Ethiopia
Abera Daba, Mekuria Tadesse, Selamawit Negassa Chawaka, Gezahegn Berecha (2022) · South African Journal of Plant and Soil

Other Impatiens 7 in the reference

Impatiens balsamina Balsam Impatiens capensis Jewel-Weed Impatiens glandulifera Himalayan balsam Impatiens hawkeri New Guinea Impatiens Impatiens niamniamensis Congo cockatoo Impatiens sodenii Oliver's touch-me-not Impatiens walleriana Busy Lizzie

History & registers

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