Impatiens pallida (pale jewelweed)

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Impatiens pallida, photographed by Mark Apgar — fig. a Mark Apgar, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-05 / obs. 203637962

Impatiens pallida, photographed by Some Luser — fig. b Some Luser, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162989754

Impatiens pallida, photographed by Alby Penney — fig. c Alby Penney, CC0 1.0 / obs. 161640772

Impatiens pallida, photographed by Will Kuhn — fig. d Will Kuhn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163695541

Impatiens pallida, photographed by Lynn Harper — fig. e Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 160934146

Impatiens pallida, photographed by John Abrams — fig. f John Abrams, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160709967

Impatiens pallida, photographed by Erin Lalime — fig. g Erin Lalime, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160653329

Impatiens pallida, photographed by Alie / C.A. Kratzer — fig. h Alie / C.A. Kratzer, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 160199948

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

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.

Impatiens noli-tangerethis one called it 12x compare

Flowering n = 3,519 observations

250

729

1304

1122

Flowering observations of Impatiens pallida by month
Month	Observations
Jan	1
Feb	0
Mar	0
Apr	1
May	14
Jun	250
Jul	729
Aug	1304
Sep	1122
Oct	94
Nov	4
Dec	0

Peak flowering in Aug, from 3,519 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 6 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.

Chrysaea aurea (Muhl.) Nieuwl. & Lunell
Impatiens aurea Muhl.
Impatiens pallida f. dichroma Steyerm.
Impatiens pallida f. pallida Fosberg
Impatiens pallida f. speciosa Jenn.
Impatiens pallida var. alba Clute

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
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.