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Scarlet Pimpernel
Scarlet Pimpernel
Lysimachia arvensis
Plantae
COMMON

Stats

Lifespan
Annual
Size
Small
Diet
Photosynthetic
Biome
Temperate grassland
Range
Europe and Western Asia
Movement
Sessile
Breeding
Seeds
Defense
Toxins
Status
Common

About

A delicate annual weed of disturbed soil, scarlet pimpernel bears tiny five-petalled flowers — usually vivid red, rarely blue — that snap shut in cloudy or wet weather, earning it the folk name "poor man's weatherglass."

Life cycle

  1. 1.
    seed
    A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
  2. 2.
    sprout
    A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
  3. 3.
    sapling
    A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
  4. 4.
    mature
    Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Ericales
Family
Primulaceae
Genus
Lysimachia
Species
Lysimachia arvensis