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Impatiens are off the list, too, ever since the scourge of impatiens downy mildew started spreading across the land.

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2015

It is a suburban idyll trimmed by red and white Impatiens, finished inside with dark oak paneling and filled with photographs of the children.

From Time Magazine Archive

Flowers pale-yellow, with a few red-brown spots Touch-me-not, Impatiens pallida. 1b.

From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Gleason, Henry Allan

Bennett, A.W., on Viola tricolor. structure of Impatiens fulva. plants flowering in winter. bees frequenting flowers of same species.

From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Darwin, Charles

Impatiens, &c., in Geraniaceæ, 105 Flowers regular or nearly so.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa