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scarlet pimpernel
Lysimachia arvensis
Scarlet pimpernel, commonly known as blue-scarlet pimpernel, red pimpernel, red chickweed, poorman's barometer, poor man's weather-glass, shepherd's weather glass or shepherd's clock, is a low-growing annual plant. The native range of the species is Europe and Western Asia and North Africa. The species has been distributed widely by humans, either deliberately as an ornamental flower or accidentally. A. arvensis is now naturalised almost worldwide, with a range that encompasses the Americas, Central and East Asia, the...
Where it lives
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.793
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.52
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.50
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.460
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.453
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 791928.