E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of BC

Lysimachia arvensis L.
Scarlet Pimperel
Myrsinaceae (Myrsine family)

Introduction to Vascular Plants

General:
Plants annual (rarely perennial), taprooted.

Leaves:
Leaves opposite, lanceolate to ovate or elliptic, sessile, base somewhat clasping, 5-15 mm.

Flowers:
Flowers long-stalked; corollas salverform, salmon to pink or reddish (rarely dark blue), throat purplish or bluish, 3-7 (10) mm wide, lobes finely fringed with small marginal hairs; calyces divided nearly to the base, usually not exceeding the corolla, 2-5 mm, lobes linear-lanceolate and scarious-margined; filaments long-hairy, reddish; anthers yellow; pedicels exceeding the subtending leaf, arched or curved (recurved in fruit), 10-40 mm. Flowering Jun-Aug.

Fruits:
Capsules 4-6 mm.

Stems:
Stems decumbent to ascending or erect, several, branched near the base, 6-50 cm tall.

Source: The Vascular Flora of British Columbia, draft 2014.
Author: Jamie Fenneman

If more than one illustration is available for a species (e.g., separate illustrations were provided for two subspecies) then links to the separate images will be provided below. Note that individual subspecies or varietal illustrations are not always available.

Illustration Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Origin Status	Provincial Status	BC List (Red Blue List)	COSEWIC
Exotic	SNA	Exotic	Not Listed

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