Scientific name: Anagallis tenella (L.) L.
Common name: Bog Pimpernel
Description
Habit: A delicate, hairless perennial, to 20 cm high.
Stems: Slender, creeping or trailing, rooting at the nodes.
Leaves: Opposite, without stipules, short-stalked, less than 1 cm long, undivided, untoothed, broadly oval or round, with a pointed tip.
Flowers: Pale pink, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, solitary in leaf axils, on long and slender flower stalks; sepals 5, free or fused with 5 narrowly triangular to lanceolate lobes; petals 5, fused at the base, bell-shaped corolla with 5 oblong lobed; stamens 5, attached to the corolla, opposite the corolla lobes; ovary superior, 1-celled, with many ovules.
Fruits: A capsule, globular, opening by splitting from the middle.
Habitat: Bogs, lake-shores, acid fens, marshes and wet peaty soils.Distribution: Abundant to occasional.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No