Impatiens hawkeriW.Bull

WFO wfo-0000730539 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Impatiens hawkeri, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. a Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-05-03 / obs. 194295633
Impatiens hawkeri, photographed by GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ
fig. b GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188386253
Impatiens hawkeri, photographed by GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ
fig. c GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188387140
Impatiens hawkeri, photographed by Hopeland
fig. d Hopeland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179462624
Impatiens hawkeri, photographed by Muhammad Malik Ali
fig. e Muhammad Malik Ali, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173948419
Impatiens hawkeri, photographed by Michael Bakker Paiva
fig. f Michael Bakker Paiva, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 14881125
Impatiens hawkeri, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. g Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 12623419
Impatiens hawkeri, photographed by Patrick Cox
fig. h Patrick Cox, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150806883

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Impatiens hawkeri is native: Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea, Solomon Is. Bismarck ArchipelagoNew GuineaSolomon Is.
Native distribution of Impatiens hawkeri, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bismarck Archipelago BIS ASIA-TROPICAL
New Guinea NWG
Solomon Is. SOL

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 296 in flower of 297 examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Impatiens hawkeri observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 296 of 297 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

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.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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