Balfour's touch-me-not
ഇംപേഷ്യൻസ് ബാൽഫൗറി
Impatiens balfourii Hook.f.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 67 cm
- wide
- —
Balsaminaceae
Formerly Impatiens mathildae
When it flowers
JFMAMJJASOND
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
PetsNo pet-safety information yet
PeopleNo safety information yet
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- N. Pakistan to W. HimalayaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 15 cm to 1.2 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- White, pink, violetRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (5)
- Chinese
- 克什米尔凤仙花
- Czech
- netýkavka Balfourova
- Dutch
- Tweekleurig springzaad
- Slovenian
- balfourova nedotika
- Malayalam
- ഇംപേഷ്യൻസ് ബാൽഫൗറി
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.0
- 3D model: Impatiens balfourii (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.