Scientific name: Lysimachia nemorum L.
Common name: Yellow Pimpernel
Description
Habit: Perennial.
Stems: Creeping or trailing, rooting at the lower nodes, to 40 cm long.
Leaves: Opposite, without stipules, short stalked, 2 cm across, oval with a pointed tip.
Flowers: Yellow, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, 12 mm across, solitary in leaf axils on slender flower stalks often longer than the leaves; sepals 5, fused at the base and 5-lobed, lobes linear-lanceolate; petals 5, fused at very base, with 5 spreading lobes; stamens 5, attached to the corolla, opposite the corolla lobes; ovary superior, 1-celled, with many ovules.
Fruits: A capsule, with 5 openings.
Habitat: Woods, scrub, ditches, banks and damp grassland.Distribution: Occasional on limestone, frequent and locally abundant elsewhere.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No