ANAGALLIS TENELLA

Family and Genus:- See- PRIMULACEAE

Common Names:- Bog pimpernel

Homotypic Synonyms:- None

Meaning:- Anagallis (Gr) Unpretentious or delighting.

Tenella (L) Delicate, tender, diminutive.

General description:- Procumbent perennial.

Stems:-

1) (3-)5-15 cm. rooting freely at the nodes.

Leaves:-

1) 4-9 x 3-6 mm, opposite or rarely alternate, suborbicular to broadly elliptical,

entire, sessile or short-petiolate.

Flowers:-

1) In the axils of the middle leaves.

2) Pedicels, (5-)15-35 mm, filiform, always much exceeding the subtending leaf.

3) Calyx, 3-4 mm, divided to base;

a) lobes, lanceolate, acuminate.

4) Corolla, 6-10 mm, infundibuliform, pink, rarely white;

a) tube, short.

b) lobes, lanceolate.

Fruit:-

1) Capsule, 2·5-4 mm, globose.

2) Seeds, 6-12.

Key features:-

1) Pedicels, exceeding the subtending leaves.

2) Corolla, pink, rarely white

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Habitat:- Damp to wet habitats by springs and brooks. (50-)300-1500 m.

Distribution:- Widespread in W.Europe, scattered in the W & C. Mediterranean.

Fairly rare an Crete known only from a few scattered localities.

Flowering time:- May-July.

Photos by:- Andriy Kovalchuk