Impatiens thwaitesii

An endemic slender herb of shady damp banks and riverside rocks in the sub montane forests from 350 to 900 m elevations. Rather rare.

 

Impatiens macrophylla

An endemic large herb of moist shaded places in montane rain forests from 1650 to 2400 m elevations. Often grows by streams and rivers.  Occasionally also occurs on road banks or rock outcrops.

Impatiens cuspidata subsp. bipartita

A large woody herb occurs along stream banks, open scrub and thickets and such moist places in the hill country rain forests from 1800 to 2700 m elevations. Often form large scattered colonies. Rarely grows in total shade. Sub species bipartita is endemic to Sri Lanka.

Rosemary leaved balsam/Rosemarina hill balsam (Impatiens oppositifolia)

An indigenous slender annual herb occurs in grassy places, wet sandy areas, ditches and occasionally in submarshy areas of damp scrub, often in partial shade, from low altitudes to submontane up to 1220 m a.s.l.

Impatiens henslowiana

Rather rare native perennial of scrub and rocky places in the hill country rain forests from 900 to 2000 m elevations. Often found close to rivers and streams or in the spray zone of waterfalls. Large herb of about 60-150 cm tall.

Impatiens ciliifolia

An endemic small herb found in lowland to submontane forests in Southwestern wet zone. It occurs as two sub species.

•  I. c. ciliifolia - Moist shady places along stream and rivers from 100 to 750 m elevations.
•  I.c. sinharajensis - On riverside rocks or sometimes on mossy logs from 350 to 600 m elevations.

දිය කූඩලු/වල් කූඩලු [Diya kudalu/Wal kudalu]/Marsh henna (Hydrocera triflora)

Rather common semi-aquatic perennial occurs in ditches, marsh lands, paddy field margins and stagnant pools from sea level to 140 m a.s.l in all the climatic zones. 

කූඩලු මල්[Kudalu Mal](Impatiens flaccida)

An indigenous herb common in moist shaded places, often along pathways, river banks etc. in secondary or degraded forests, villages and cultivated lands from lowlands to about 1000 m a.s.l. Usually growing in large colonies.

Busy Lizzie (Impatiens walleriana)

An introduced perennial herb native to tropical East Africa. Cultivated and also naturalized on shaded river banks, roadsides and pathways often in or near villages  from 850-1200 m elevations.

කූඩලු[Kudalu]/Garden balsam/Common balsam (Impatiens balsamina)

An introduced (native? >>) annual herb native to India and Southeast Asian mainland.  It is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant and also escaped and naturalized along roadsides and open places. 

ගල් දෙමට[Gal-Demata](Impatiens repens)

An endemic prostrate herb occurs mainly on rocks, in moist and shaded places in wet zone up to about 1200 m elevations. Flowering most of the year.

Impatiens truncata

Rather common endemic herb found along paths, stream banks and such damp and shaded places in montane forests. 

කූඩලු [Koodalu](Impatiens leptopoda)

An endemic herb growing among rocks or on banks of streams and rivers in rain forests and thickets in more open places of the hill country(Above 1200m a.s.l). Flowers are variable in size and color and color varies from pink, mauve-pink to white with a dark magenta spot towards the base of each pair of lateral united petals. 

කූඩලු [Koodalu](Impatiens elongata)

An endemic herb found in riverside rocks, near waterfalls, scrub covered slopes or in open places in  montane forests (1170 - 2000m a.s.l.)

කූඩලු [Koodalu](Impatiens cornigera)

An endemic herb growing in shady places amongst rocks or pathways usually near streams and rivers of lowland and hill country rain forests (165-  1400m a.s.l. ). Color of the flower varies from yellow, pink, pale violet purple to white. 

Impatiens acaulis

Locally common Impatiens species on wet rocks and stream banks of hill country forests (750-2050 m a.s.l.). Also found in South India.