flowers of Himalaya
Rugged Yellow Balsam
Scabby Balsam
Botanical name: Impatiens scabrida
Family: Balsaminaceae (Balsam family)
Synonyms: Impatiens cristata
Rugged Yellow Balsam is a rather robust often much
branched plant with large lemon yellow flowers spotted with brown within. Flowers
are borne several in each axil, 3-4 cm long, with a broad funnel-shaped lower
sepal suddenly contracted to a slender spur 1.5-3 cm long. Upper petal is
rounded and spurred. Lateral sepals pubescent, ovate-suborbiculate, 5-7 x 4-7
mm, sometimes mottled brown-black. The short-stalked leaves are 5-15 cm,
elliptic to lacelike, long pointed, with acute teeth. Stem is finely hairy, 2-4
ft tall. Rugged Yellow Balsam is found in shrubberies, forests and damp places,
at altitudes of 1200-3600 m, from Kashmir to Bhutan.
Flowering: May-September.
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Flowering: May-September.
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