Busy Lizzie
ബാൽസം
Impatiens walleriana Hook.f.
- light
- Part–shade
- water
- Plenty
- tall
- 38 cm
- wide
- 38 cm
Balsaminaceae
Also called Balsam, Sultana, Buzzy lizzy
Formerly Impatiens bruantii, Impatiens episcopi, Impatiens holstii, Impatiens lujae, and 2 more
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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
- SubshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SE. Kenya to S. Trop. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade to shade (under 6 h)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 15 cm to 61 cmRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 6–24 in; Wikipedia 15–60 cm
- Spread
- 15 cm to 61 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Plenty: wet or constantly moistRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, orange, red, pink, purpleRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension orange, pink, purple, red, white; Wikipedia orange, pink, purple, red, violet, white
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Belén africana, Bejuco amateco africano, China común
- Chinese
- 洋鳳仙, 非洲鳳仙花, 急性子
- Portuguese
- Beijo-turco
- Estonian
- sultan-lemmalts
- Dutch
- Vlijtig Liesje
- Finnish
- ahkeraliisa
- Czech
- netýkavka Wallerova
- Japanese
- アフリカホウセンカ, インパチェンス
- Russian
- Недотрога Уоллера
- Swedish
- flitiga lisa
- Chinese (China)
- 洋凤仙, 苏丹凤仙花
- French
- Impatiente de Waller, Buveuse d'eau
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Impatiens walleriana (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.