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§1 Plant

Anagallis arvensis L.

vernacular scarlet pimpernel — species · Primulaceae


USDA
ANAR
GBIF
9631539 syn.
Rank
species
scarlet pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis)
Platephotograph · Douglas GoldmanCC BY-SA source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual, Biennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Primulaceae Batsch
Genus
Anagallis
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • GL Greenland Introduced
  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
  • PR Puerto Rico Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 214 counties across 16 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 214 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 214 counties across 16 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 3 I
Arizona view state ↗ 6 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 10 I
Delaware view state ↗ 1 I
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I
Maine view state ↗ 6 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 11 I
Montana view state ↗ 1 I
New Hampshire view state ↗ 2 I
New Jersey view state ↗ 17 I
New York view state ↗ 24 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 36 I
Rhode Island view state ↗ 3 I
Vermont view state ↗ 3 I
Virginia view state ↗ 75 I
West Virginia view state ↗ 15 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/ANAR ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/9631539 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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