Scarlet pimpernel
कृष्ण नीलஅனிச்சம்নীল বাঁধফুল
Lysimachia arvensis (L.) U.Manns & Anderb.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 10 cm
- wide
- 41 cm
Primulaceae
Formerly Anagallis arabica, Anagallis arvensis, Anagallis carnea, Anagallis hadidii, and 6 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Annual or biennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to C. Asia and Himalaya, N. Africa to Ethiopia and Arabian Pen.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 10 cmRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Wikipedia 5–30 cm; Plants for a Future 0.1–0.1 m
- Spread
- 41 cmRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Flowers
- White, orange, red, pink, blueRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (7)
- Asturian
- meruxa
- Chinese
- 琉璃繁缕
- Chinese (Taiwan)
- 琉璃繁縷
- Finnish
- peltopunka
- Hindi
- कृष्ण नील
- Tamil
- அனிச்சம், அனிச்சை மலர், அனிச்சை
- Bangla
- নীল বাঁধফুল
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3D model: Lysimachia arvensis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.