Common name:
Yellow pimpernel
Family:
Scientific name:
Lysimachia nemorum
Main flower color:
Range:
All across the UK
Height:
Stems are up to 40 cm, growing along the ground
Habitat:
Woodland, hedgebanks, damp, grassy places
Flowers:
Five ovate, spreading, bright yellow petals and five shorter, very narrow green sepals, just visible from above between the petal edges. Flowers are solitary, attached at the leaf nodes by slender stalks of up to 4 cm
Leaves:
Opposite, ovate, hairless, up to 4 cm long, pointed at the tips
Season:
June to August
Rarity:
★★★★★
