Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Bog Pimpernel, Lysimachia tenella, Falcaire corraigh
Photographs: Mizen Head, Co. Cork

Bog Pimpernel
Lysimachia tenella (Anagallis tenella)
Falcaire corraigh
Family: Primulaceae

Flowering time: June-August. Perennial. Native.

Small white flowers, but they appear pink because of the crimson veins. The calyx is 5-lobed. The leaves are short-stalked, opposite and broadly-oval or round in shape. A small creeping plant, rooting at the stem nodes. Spread 7-18 cm

Found in wet meadows and bogs on damp sand or peat. Abundant in the west but local elsewhere in Ireland.

Bog Pimpernel, Lysimachia tenella, Falcaire corraigh

Bog Pimpernel, Anagallis tenella, Falcaire corraigh
Bog Pimpernel, Lysimachia tenella (Anagallis tenella), Falcaire corraigh

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