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 tenella \u2013 Bog pimpernel<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 This mat forming perennial comes from Western Europe. \u00a0It bears 6\u201d long procumbent stems but the plant is seldom taller then an inch high and spreads to around 12\u201d inches wide. \u00a0In summer it bears soft pink occasional white funnel shaped flowers. \u00a0Grow in a boggy site like the edge of ponds and other damp sheltered spots.<\/p>\n Zones 8-10<\/p>\n <\/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":29469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[95,21,20],"product_tag":[],"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-160251798"},"_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\/3379"}],"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=3379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3379"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3379"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=3379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}