pimpernel

Any of various plants of the genus Anagallis, having opposite leaves and flowers with a five-lobed calyx, especially the scarlet pimpernel.

The garden-burnet, Poterium Sanguisorba.

The burnet-saxifrage, Pimpinella Saxifraga.

The selfheal, Brunella vulgaris.

A plant, Anagallis arvensis, of the primrose family, sometimes distinguished as red or scarlet pimpernel, a native of the northern Old World and introduced into the United States and elsewhere.

A plant of the genus Anagallis, of which one species (Anagallis arvensis) has small flowers, usually scarlet, but sometimes purple, blue, or white, which speedily close at the approach of bad weather.

See Brookweed.

European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads

any of several plants of the genus Anagallis