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Lysimachia tenella
Also called European Bog Pimpernel
Bog pimpernel is a low-growing, delicate perennial of damp habitats such as bogs, wet heaths and dune slacks. It needs consistently moist to wet soil and good light to do well.
Lysimachia tenella, synonym Anagallis tenella, known in Britain as the bog pimpernel, is a low growing perennial plant found in a variety of damp habitats from calcareous dune slacks to boggy and peaty heaths in western and southern Europe and Northwest Africa. In the United Kingdom it is mostly restricted to the western half of the country, although it was more common in the east before land drainage and intensification of farming in that area.
The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus as Lysimachia tenella in 1753. It was later transferred to the genus Anagallis, but returned to Lysimachia when Anagallis was synonymized with that genus, following molecular phylogenetic studies.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
