| Scientific Name: | Impatiens glandulifera |
| Common Name: | Himalayan balsam |
| Family Name: | Balsaminaceae |
| Origin: | South Asia / India |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (true), Invasive plant |
| Mature Size: | 1.3 - 2.0m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Herb, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Bog, Humus rich |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Whorled, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Distinctive smell, Elliptic, Lanceolate, Oblong, Ovate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Flowers solitary, White, Purple, Pink, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Edible, Brown, Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite or whorled, lanceolate, most reach 5-23cm long x 6-8cm wide, margin serrate; flowers pink, with a hooded shape, 3-4cm tall x 2cm wide; capsules 2-3cm long x 6-9mm wide. | |