There are about 20 species of low growing or creeping annuals and evergreen perennials, in this genus. \u00a0They occur natural in open meadows bogs and dry sites in the Mediterranean and Western Europe. \u00a0They produce bright green opposite or alternate heart shaped to elliptical, smooth edged leaves with very short leaf stalks. \u00a0In spring and summer solitary bell shaped to open saucer shaped flowers each with 5 petals are produced from leaf axils. \u00a0These are easily grown colorful ground cover plants. \u00a0They come in a variety of colors of red, blue, white, pink or orange. \u00a0They\u2019re fairly frost hardy.<\/p>\n
When grown indoors grow in gritty soil based potting mix in full light.<\/p>\n
When grown outdoors plant in fertile moist but well-drained soil that doesn\u2019t dry out entirely in summer in full sun.<\/p>\n
Prone to aphids.<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n Anagallis arvensis \u2013 Scarlet pimpernel \u2013 Common pimpernel<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 This species from Europe is an annual, or biennial or short lived perennial and is widely regarded as a weed. \u00a0This sprawling plant with \u00bd\u201d long rounded bright green leaves bear 18\u201d long stems which carry small orange flowers that appear from spring to autumn.<\/p>\n Zones 7-10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anagallis \u2013 Pimpernel There are about 20 species of low growing or creeping annuals and evergreen perennials, in this genus. \u00a0They occur natural in open meadows bogs and dry sites in the Mediterranean and Western Europe. \u00a0They produce bright green opposite or alternate heart shaped to elliptical, smooth edged leaves with very short leaf stalks. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":26392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[21,32,31,20],"product_tag":[92],"common-name":[],"toolset-meta":{"plant-product-fields":{"is-featured-product":{"type":"checkbox","raw":""},"zone":{"type":"checkboxes","raw":"","checked":[],"formatted":""},"scientific-name":{"type":"textfield","raw":""}},"toolset-woocommerce-fields":{"_download_limit":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_virtual":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_downloadable":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_download_expiry":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_download_type":{"type":"radio","raw":""},"_regular_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price_dates_from":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sale_price_dates_to":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sku":{"type":"textfield","raw":"PDE-160251794"},"_manage_stock":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_stock_status":{"type":"radio","raw":"instock"},"_stock":{"type":"numeric","raw":null},"_backorders":{"type":"radio","raw":"no"},"_sold_individually":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_width":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_weight":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_length":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_purchase_note":{"type":"textarea","raw":""}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3376"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3376"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=3376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}