Or touch-me-not; Any of various North American annual herbaceous plants of the genus Impatiens of the balsam family, usually growing in wet soil and having yellowish-orange, sometimes spotted flowers with short spurs. Their mature seed pods burst at the slightest touch.North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil; SYN. lady's earrings, orange balsam, celandine, touch-me-not, Impatiens capensis.