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Impatiens capensis

Common names: jewelweed

Authority: Meerb.

Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Ericales > Balsaminaceae

Roles: study subject

ITIS TSN: 29182

Synonyms: Impatiens

External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank

Papers: 89 | Mentions: 90

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 72 entities)

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Publications (89)

student_paper

Alpine plants of Mt. Baldy: modeling phenology and documenting biodiversity

2025Role: text_match

thesis

Dimensions of difference: Multi-scale consequences of trait variation in bumble bees

2025Role: text_match

article

Herbivory and water availability interact to shape the adaptive landscape in the perennial forb, Boechera stricta

2025EvolutionRole: text_match

article

Nutrient niche dynamics among wild pollinators

2025Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesRole: text_match

student_paper

Quantifying ethanol in bumble bee honey and Colorado rocky mountain wildflowers

2025Role: text_match

article

Shorter seasonal snow cover poses a risk to solitary bee populations in a mountainous ecosystem

2025Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesRole: text_match

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Temperature influences pollinators' choice of floral partners independently of community composition

2025Journal of Animal EcologyRole: text_match

article

Wild foundress queen bumble bees make numerous, short foraging trips and exhibit frequent nest failure: Insights from trap-nesting and RFID tracking

Co-occurring Species

2025Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match

student_paper

Fit or Unlit: using quantum dots to investigate the effects of a floricolous yeast and nectar robbing on male fitness in Ipomopsis aggregata

2024Role: text_match

article

Intraspecific body size variation across distributional moments reveals trait filtering processes

2024Journal of Animal EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Investigating the potential mechanism behind bumble bee preference for Corydalis flowers inhabited by nectar specialist yeast

2024Role: text_match

student_paper

Solitary bee genera differ in foraging activity timing and temperature; Evidence of a seasonal dietary shift in Hoplitis fulgida

2024Role: text_match

article

Emergent social structure is typically not associated with survival in a facultatively social mammal

2023Biology LettersRole: text_match

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The causes and consequences of pollen defence

2023Role: text_match

thesis

Bumble bee queen plasticity and social regulation of traits

2022Role: text_match

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Ecological Drivers and Consequences of Bumble Bee Body Size Variation

2022Environmental Entomology Role: text_match

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Life-history traits predict responses of wild bees to climate variation

2022Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesRole: text_match

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The Boechera model system for evolutionary ecology

2022American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

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The shifting importance of abiotic and biotic factors across the life cycles of wild pollinators

2022Journal of Animal EcologyRole: text_match

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Tritrophic mutualisms in a changing climate

2022Role: text_match

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Chemical Variation among Castes, Female Life Stages and Populations of the Facultative Eusocial Sweat Bee Halictus rubicundus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

2021Journal of Chemical EcologyRole: text_match

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Chemical Variation among Castes, Female Life Stages and Populations of the Facultative Eusocial Sweat Bee Halictus rubicundus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

2021Journal of Chemical EcologyRole: text_match

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Experimental Test of the Combined Effects of Water Availability and Flowering Time on Pollinator Visitation and Seed Set

2021Frontiers of Ecology & EvolutionRole: text_match

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From the ground up: Building predictions for how climate change will affect belowground mutualisms, floral traits, and bee behavior

2021Climate Change EcologyRole: text_match

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The effects of anthropogenic change on pollination in plant-pollinator communities

2021Role: text_match

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The sensory and cognitive ecology of nectar robbing

2021Frontiers in Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match

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Trade-off mitigation: a conceptual framework for understanding floral adaptation in multispecies interactions

2021Biological ReviewsRole: text_match

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Understanding pollen specialization in mason bees: a case study of six species

2021OecologiaRole: text_match

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Unraveling the ecological and evolutionary impacts of a plant invader on the pollination of a native plant

2021Biological Invasions doi 10.1007/s10530-021-02457-zRole: text_match

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Resource availability alters fitness trade-offs: implications for evolution in stressful environments

2020American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

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Small spaces, big impacts: contributions of micro-environmental variation to population persistence under climate change

2020AOB PlantsRole: text_match

article

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

2020Global Change BiologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Tracing phenology trends in time and space using herbarium data and citizen science observations in western Colorado

2020Role: text_match

article

Wild hummingbirds discriminate nonspectral colors

2020Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesRole: text_match

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Floral reward strategies, visitor behavior, and plant reproductive outcomes

2019Role: text_match

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Invasive plants and water availablity mediate outcomes of plant-pollinator interactions

2019Role: text_match

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Phenology as a process rather than an event: from individual reaction norms to community metrics

2019Ecological Monographs doi 10.1002/ecm.1352Role: text_match

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Pollen and vegetative secondary chemistry of three pollen-rewarding lupines

2019American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

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Stoichiometry and infectious disease: Linking chemical elements and parasitic interactions

2019Role: text_match

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Examining the impact of pollen diet composition on bee development and lifespan

2018Role: text_match

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Heritable plant phenotypes track light and herbivory levels at fine spatial scales

2018OecologiaRole: text_match

student_paper

Impacts of drought gradient on pollen limitation in flowers in dry subalpine meadows

2018Role: text_match

student_paper

Investigation of Inbreeding Depression in Boechera stricta Fitness

2018Role: text_match

article

Why are some plant-nectar robber interactions commensalisms?

2018OikosRole: text_match

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Facilitated exploitation of pollination mutualisms: fitness consequences for plants

2017Journal of EcologyRole: text_match

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Foraging strategy predicts foraging economy in a facultative secondary nectar robber

2017OikosRole: text_match

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Integrating viability and fecundity selection to illuminate the adaptive nature of genetic clines

2017Evolution LettersRole: text_match

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Metabolism of toxic sugars by the bee gut symbiont Gilliamella apicola

2017mBioRole: text_match

thesis

Plant-Pollinator Interactions and Environmental Change: Effects of Experimental Changes in Phenology and Water Availability on a Montane Wildflower

2017Role: text_match

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Effects of increased flight on the energetics and life history of the butterfly Speyeria mormonia

2015PLoS OneRole: text_match

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Plasticity in functional traits in the context of climate change: A case study of the subalpine forb Boechera stricta (Brassicaceae)

2015Global Change BiologyRole: text_match

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The evolutionary ecology of ultraviolet floral pigmentation

2015Role: text_match

article

Selection of trait combinations through bee and fly visitation to flowers of Polemonium foliosissimum

2014Journal of Evolutionary BiologyRole: text_match

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The evolution of quantitative traits in complex environments

2014HeredityRole: text_match

student_paper

Comparing Bombus pollinator efficacies in Delphinium barbeyi (Ranunculaceae) reproductive success

2013Role: text_match

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Dose-dependent effects of nectar alkaloids in a montane plant-pollinator community

2013Journal of EcologyRole: text_match

article

Genetic tradeoffs and conditional neutrality contribute to local adaptation

2013Molecular EcologyRole: text_match

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Norditerpene alkaloid concentrations in tissues and floral rewards of larkspurs and impacts on pollinators

2013Biochemical Systematics and EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Scale of plasticity and local adaptation in Boechera stricta along an altitudinal gradient

2013Role: text_match

thesis

Plant responses to the joint effects of herbivores and pollinators

2012Role: text_match

student_paper

Nectar and pollen rewards of invasive plants and their native congeners

2010Role: text_match

thesis

Plant–Pollinator interactions in a changing climate

2010Role: text_match

article

Pollination potential of male bumble bees (Bombus impatiens): movement patterns and pollen-transfer efficiency

2010Journal of Pollination EcologyRole: text_match

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A global test of the pollination syndrome hypothesis

2009Annals of BotanyRole: text_match

article

Effects of flowering plant density on pollinator visitation, pollen receipt, and seed production in Delphinium barbeyi

2009American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

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Nectar sugar limits larval growth of solitary bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)

2009Environmental EntomologyRole: text_match

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Studies on the ecology of avian malaria in an alpine ecosystem

2009Role: text_match

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Bottom-up effects of nutrient enrichment on plants, pollinators, and their interactions

2008Role: text_match

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Pollen limitation and cleistogamy in subalpine Viola praemorsa

2008BotanyRole: text_match

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Reciprocal benefits in a plant-pollinator mutualism

2008Role: text_match

student_paper

Rocky Mountain Bombus pathogen survey: Are invasive plants affecting pathogen prevalence and intensity?

2008Role: text_match

student_paper

Changes in mosquito community of Gunnison County since 1966

2007Role: text_match

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Leaf physiology reflects environmental differences and cytoplasmic background in Ipomopsis hybrids

2007American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

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Predicting the effects of nectar robbing on plant reproduction: implications of pollen limitation and plant mating system

2007American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

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Floral larceny: Implications, resistance, and the potential for tolerance

2006Role: text_match

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Effects of nectar robbing on nectar dynamics and bumblebee foraging strategies in Linaria vulgaris

2005OikosRole: text_match

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Adaptive speciation

2004Role: text_match

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The ecology of pollination and nectar robbing in Linaria vulgaris in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

2004TSpaceRole: text_match

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Impact of nectar robbing on estimates of pollen flow: conceptual predictions and emperical outcomes

2003EcologyRole: text_match

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Linking pollinator visitation rate and pollen receipt

2003American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

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Pollen transfer by hummingbirds and bumblebees, and divergence of pollination modes in Penstemon

2003EvolutionRole: text_match

article

Variation in nectar robbing over time, space, and species

2002OecologiaRole: text_match

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The impact of floral larceny on individuals, populations, and communities

2001OecologiaRole: text_match

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Are nectar robbers cheaters or mutualists?

2000EcologyRole: text_match

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Consequences of nectar robbing for realized male function in a hummingbird-pollinated plant

2000EcologyRole: text_match

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A trade-off between the frequency and duration of bumblebee visits to flowers

1998OecologiaRole: text_match

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Heterogeneity among floral visitors leads to discordance between removal and deposition of pollen

1991EcologyRole: study subject

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Mountain mosquitoes of the Gothic, Colorado area

1966American Midland NaturalistRole: text_match

article

Axenic culture of two new species of branched Trichomyctes

1964American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

Impatiens capensis

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 72 entities)

Publications (89)

Alpine plants of Mt. Baldy: modeling phenology and documenting biodiversity

Dimensions of difference: Multi-scale consequences of trait variation in bumble bees

Herbivory and water availability interact to shape the adaptive landscape in the perennial forb, Boechera stricta

Nutrient niche dynamics among wild pollinators

Quantifying ethanol in bumble bee honey and Colorado rocky mountain wildflowers

Shorter seasonal snow cover poses a risk to solitary bee populations in a mountainous ecosystem

Temperature influences pollinators' choice of floral partners independently of community composition

Wild foundress queen bumble bees make numerous, short foraging trips and exhibit frequent nest failure: Insights from trap-nesting and RFID tracking

Co-occurring Species

Buff-tailed Bumble Bee

Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee

Common Eastern Bumble Bee

Bumble Bees

Two-form Bumble Bee

Golden-belted Bumble Bee

Bombus vagans

Bombus

Bombus sylvicola

Bombus appositus

Fit or Unlit: using quantum dots to investigate the effects of a floricolous yeast and nectar robbing on male fitness in Ipomopsis aggregata

Intraspecific body size variation across distributional moments reveals trait filtering processes

Investigating the potential mechanism behind bumble bee preference for Corydalis flowers inhabited by nectar specialist yeast

Solitary bee genera differ in foraging activity timing and temperature; Evidence of a seasonal dietary shift in Hoplitis fulgida

Emergent social structure is typically not associated with survival in a facultatively social mammal

The causes and consequences of pollen defence

Bumble bee queen plasticity and social regulation of traits

Ecological Drivers and Consequences of Bumble Bee Body Size Variation

Life-history traits predict responses of wild bees to climate variation

The Boechera model system for evolutionary ecology

The shifting importance of abiotic and biotic factors across the life cycles of wild pollinators

Tritrophic mutualisms in a changing climate

Chemical Variation among Castes, Female Life Stages and Populations of the Facultative Eusocial Sweat Bee <i> Halictus rubicundus </i> (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

Chemical Variation among Castes, Female Life Stages and Populations of the Facultative Eusocial Sweat Bee <i> Halictus rubicundus </i> (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

Experimental Test of the Combined Effects of Water Availability and Flowering Time on Pollinator Visitation and Seed Set

From the ground up: Building predictions for how climate change will affect belowground mutualisms, floral traits, and bee behavior

The effects of anthropogenic change on pollination in plant-pollinator communities

The sensory and cognitive ecology of nectar robbing

Trade-off mitigation: a conceptual framework for understanding floral adaptation in multispecies interactions

Understanding pollen specialization in mason bees: a case study of six species

Unraveling the ecological and evolutionary impacts of a plant invader on the pollination of a native plant

Resource availability alters fitness trade-offs: implications for evolution in stressful environments

Small spaces, big impacts: contributions of micro-environmental variation to population persistence under climate change

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

Tracing phenology trends in time and space using herbarium data and citizen science observations in western Colorado

Wild hummingbirds discriminate nonspectral colors

Floral reward strategies, visitor behavior, and plant reproductive outcomes

Invasive plants and water availablity mediate outcomes of plant-pollinator interactions

Phenology as a process rather than an event: from individual reaction norms to community metrics

Pollen and vegetative secondary chemistry of three pollen-rewarding lupines

Stoichiometry and infectious disease: Linking chemical elements and parasitic interactions

Examining the impact of pollen diet composition on bee development and lifespan

Heritable plant phenotypes track light and herbivory levels at fine spatial scales

Impacts of drought gradient on pollen limitation in flowers in dry subalpine meadows

Investigation of Inbreeding Depression in <i>Boechera stricta</i> Fitness

Why are some plant-nectar robber interactions commensalisms?

Facilitated exploitation of pollination mutualisms: fitness consequences for plants

Foraging strategy predicts foraging economy in a facultative secondary nectar robber

Integrating viability and fecundity selection to illuminate the adaptive nature of genetic clines

Metabolism of toxic sugars by the bee gut symbiont <i>Gilliamella apicola</i>

Plant-Pollinator Interactions and Environmental Change: Effects of Experimental Changes in Phenology and Water Availability on a Montane Wildflower

Effects of increased flight on the energetics and life history of the butterfly <i>Speyeria mormonia</i>

Plasticity in functional traits in the context of climate change: A case study of the subalpine forb Boechera stricta (Brassicaceae)

The evolutionary ecology of ultraviolet floral pigmentation

Selection of trait combinations through bee and fly visitation to flowers of <i>Polemonium foliosissimum</i>

The evolution of quantitative traits in complex environments

Comparing <i>Bombus</i> pollinator efficacies in <i>Delphinium barbeyi</i> (Ranunculaceae) reproductive success

Dose-dependent effects of nectar alkaloids in a montane plant-pollinator community

Genetic tradeoffs and conditional neutrality contribute to local adaptation

Norditerpene alkaloid concentrations in tissues and floral rewards of larkspurs and impacts on pollinators

Scale of plasticity and local adaptation in <i>Boechera stricta </i> along an altitudinal gradient

Plant responses to the joint effects of herbivores and pollinators

Nectar and pollen rewards of invasive plants and their native congeners

Plant–Pollinator interactions in a changing climate

Pollination potential of male bumble bees (<i>Bombus impatiens</i>): movement patterns and pollen-transfer efficiency

A global test of the pollination syndrome hypothesis

Effects of flowering plant density on pollinator visitation, pollen receipt, and seed production in <i>Delphinium barbeyi</i>

Nectar sugar limits larval growth of solitary bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)