Impatiens capensisMeerb.

common jewelweed

WFO wfo-0000730324 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Impatiens capensis, photographed by Jeff Clark
fig. a Jeff Clark, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205625883
Impatiens capensis, photographed by Joseph Aubert
fig. b Joseph Aubert, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201893029
Impatiens capensis, photographed by mefisher
fig. c mefisher, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205014849
Impatiens capensis, photographed by Joseph Aubert
fig. d Joseph Aubert, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201802209
Impatiens capensis, photographed by mefisher
fig. e mefisher, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205017618
Impatiens capensis, photographed by Carter Dorscht
fig. f Carter Dorscht, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202687811
Impatiens capensis, photographed by Joseph McPhail
fig. g Joseph McPhail, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205061847
Impatiens capensis, photographed by Joseph Aubert
fig. h Joseph Aubert, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201806109

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 14,770 observations

Peak flowering in Aug, from 14,770 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 20 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Balsamina fulva (Nutt.) Ser.
  • Chrysaea biflora (Walter) Nieuwl. & Lunell
  • Impatiens biflora Walter
  • Impatiens biflora f. albiflora (E.L.Rand & Redfield) Weath.
  • Impatiens biflora f. biflora Fosberg
  • Impatiens biflora f. citrina Weath.
  • Impatiens biflora f. immaculata Weath.
  • Impatiens biflora f. peasei A.H.Moore ex Weath.
  • Impatiens biflora f. platymeris Weath.
  • Impatiens capensis f. albiflora (E.L.Rand & Redfield) Fernald & B.G.Schub.
  • Impatiens capensis f. capensis
  • Impatiens capensis f. citrina (Weath.) Fernald & B.G.Schub.
  • Impatiens capensis f. immaculata (Weath.) Fernald & B.G.Schub.
  • Impatiens capensis f. peasei (A.H.Moore ex Weath.) Fernald & B.G.Schub.
  • Impatiens capensis f. platymeris (Weath.) Fernald & B.G.Schub.
  • Impatiens fulva Nutt.
  • Impatiens fulva f. albiflora E.L.Rand & Redfield
  • Impatiens maculata Muhl.
  • Impatiens noli-tangere subsp. biflora (Walter) Hultén
  • Impatiens nortonii Rydb.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.