• Common Name: Impatiens, Busy Lizzie
  • Botanical Name: Impatiens walleriana
  • Family Name: Balsam Family
  • Type: perennial
  • Zone Hardiness: 10–11
  • Height: 6–24in
  • Width: 12–24in
  • Blooms: Single or double flowers in shades of white, pink, red, salmon, purple, and bicolor
  • Bloom Time: May to the first frost
  • Sun: Partial to full shade
  • Leaves: Oval to elliptic, medium-textured, light to dark green, sometimes with a bronze cast
  • Maintenance: Low for beginners; benefits from pinching to encourage branching. Needs regular watering
  • Tolerates: heat, the sun
  • Attracts: Bees and butterflies
  • Texas Superstar: No
  • Texas Native: No
  • Invasive: No