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 \u2018Studland\u2019<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 This mat forming perennial produces alternate or opposite stalked, more or less elliptic to rounded bright green leaves 1\/8-3\/8\u201d long. \u00a0In late spring and early summer the leaves are almost hidden by the upright bell shaped scented deep pink flowers \u00bc- \u00bd\u201d across.<\/p>\n Zones 5-7<\/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":0,"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-160251799"},"_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\/3380"}],"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=3380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3380"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3380"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=3380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}