Impatiens bicolor, also known as the bicolored balsam, is a species of flowering plant within the family Balsaminaceae.
Description Impatiens bicolor is an annual plant reaching heights ranging between tall. This species possesses bicolored flowers, which can vary in color. Flowers are long, borne on peduncles long with pedicels about (extending to when in fruit). The leaves are elliptic to elliptic-ovate with crenate-dentate margins and petioles up to long bearing two basal glands.
Distribution Impatiens bicolor is native to parts of Southern Asia where it naturally occurs in the countries of Afghanistan, Nepal and Pakistan, also extending into the Western Himalayas mountain range. The species has also been introduced outside of their native range with wild populations occurring in Germany and Oregon.
Habitat Impatiens bicolor can be found growing on mountain slopes at altitudes ranging from above sea level within the Himalayas. Plants introduced into Oregon can be found growing along the banks of streams within forests, but also within moist soils in ravines and on slopes.
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