| Author | L. | |
| Distribution | Scattered in 5 counties in the Mountains, Piedmont, and Coastal Plain. Specimens from Rutherford and Tyrrell counties are misidentified.
Native of southern Asia; in N.A. RI to WI south to FL and TX. | |
| Abundance | Very rare. | |
| Habitat | Roadside ditch, campus weed, dump, waste area. Most collections were near to cultivated plants. | |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting June-November. | |
| Identification | Unlike our native species, Garden Balsam is a short herb with little or no branching, and leaf margins are sharply short-toothed. Flowers are red to magenta, pink, or white. It looks nothing like our two native species and arguably should be in a different genus from them. | |
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| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | GNR | |
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| USACE-agcp | UPL link |
| USACE-emp | UPL link |
