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Impatiens parviflora (smallflower touchmenot)

Synonyms: Impatiens parviflora f. albiflora

Wikipedia Abstract

Impatiens parviflora (Small Balsam, or Small-flowered Touch-me-not) is a species of annual herbaceous plants in the family Balsaminaceae, native to some areas of Eurasia, naturalized elsewhere and found in damp shady places. Impatiens parviflora can grow in sandy, loamy, and clay soils and prefer moist soil.
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Infraspecies

Impatiens parviflora nevskii
Impatiens parviflora parviflora (Smallflower touchmenot)

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Low
Bee Flower Color [2]  Ultraviolet
Flower Color [2]  Yellow
Edible [3]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [3]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [3]  Regular ingestion of large quantities of these plants can be dangerous due to their high mineral content; This report, which seems nonsensical, might refer to calcium oxalate. This mineral is found in I. capensis and so is probably also in other members of the genus. It can be harmful raw but is destroyed by thoroughly cooking or drying the plant; People with a tendency to rheumatism, arthritis, gout, kidney stones and hyperacidity should take especial caution if including this plant in their diet;
Lifespan [3]  Annual
Pollinators [3]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Structure [5]  Herb
Usage [3]  A yellow dye is obtained from the plant; No more details are given. Used as a hair rinse for itchy scalps; No more details are given. A fungicide is obtained from the plant; No more details are given but it is likely to be the juice of the plant that is used.
Height [3]  39 inches (1 m)
Light Preference [4]  Mostly Shady
Soil Acidity [4]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [4]  Rich
Soil Moisture [4]  Moist
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Protected Areas

Predators

Deilephila elpenor (Elephant Hawk-Moth)[6]
Impatientinum asiaticum[7]
Opomyza nitida[8]
Phytoliriomyza melampyga (Jewelweed Leafminer)[7]
Xanthorhoe biriviata (Balsam Carpet)[6]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 3Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 4ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 5Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 6HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 7Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0