Anagallis arvensis
Lysimachia vulgaris
mouron rouge, scarlet pimpernel
common yellow-loosestrife, garden loosestrife, garden yellow-loosestrife, lysimaque commune, yellow loosestrife
ascending or erect, 0.6–5 dm.
erect, simple or branched, 1–12(–25) dm, pubescent and sometimes obscurely stipitate-glandular distally;
rhizomes thickened;
bulblets absent.
usually opposite, sometimes whorled distally;
blade ovate to elliptic or lanceolate, 5–30 × 4–10 mm.
whorled, opposite, or subopposite;
petiole 0.1–0.6 cm, eciliate;
blade lanceolate to lanceolate-ovate, 7–12 × 1.5–4 cm, base truncate, obtuse, or cuneate, sometimes slightly decurrent, margins entire or sometimes sinuate, slightly revolute or plane, eciliolate, apex acute to acuminate, surfaces obscurely punctate apically or along margins, pubescent abaxially and sometimes sparsely stipitate-glandular adaxially;
venation pinnate to reticulate.
terminal or terminal and axillary in distal leaves, panicles, 2–8 cm.
recurved in fruit, 3–35 mm, longer than subtending leaf.
2–7 mm, pubescent and sometimes also stipitate-glandular.
sepals 5, calyx divided nearly to base, 3.5–5 mm, ± equaling corolla, margins entire or minutely crenulate, broadly scarious, apex acute to acuminate;
petals 5, corolla salmon, red, or blue, salverform (almost rotate), (2–)3–7(–10) mm.
sepals 5, calyx streaked with longitudinal maroon resin canals along margins, 2.5–5 mm, pubescent and stipitate-glandular near margins, lobes ovate, margins thin or slightly thickened;
petals 5, corolla yellow, sometimes with reddish base, not streaked, rotate, 8–12 mm, lobes with margins entire, apex acute to rounded, stipitate-glandular adaxially;
filaments connate 1.5–2.2 mm, shorter than corolla;
staminodes absent.
4–6 mm.
(somewhat reddened distally), 3.5–6 mm, not punctate, glabrous.
12–45.
= 40.
= 28, 42, 56, 84 (Europe).
Anagallis arvensis
Lysimachia vulgaris
Canadian populations of Anagallis arvensis are primarily found in southern coastal regions and the lower Great Lakes. The species has been reported also from Alberta, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saskatchewan, and Minnesota; it is not established in those areas.
The flowers close on cloudy days and as evening approaches, hence the name weatherglass. P. E. Gibbs and S. Talavera (2001) found that Anagallis arvensis self-pollinates as the petals close.
This is the most variable species of Anagallis, with reddish flowers once thought to be common in more northerly latitudes and blue flowers in southern areas. There are numerous intermediate color forms. The blue form has been the source of confusion in the nomenclature of this taxon. Linnaeus described the blue form of A. arvensis as A. caerulea. Schreber used A. coerulea (note the spelling) as did Lamarck for a related taxon that is now included within A. foemina Miller. Subsequent authors submerged A. caerulea/coerulea into A. arvensis as a forma, variety, or subspecies, incorrectly crediting either Schreber or Lamarck. L. F. Ferguson (1972) distinguished A. foemina Miller (including Schreber’s A. coerulea), which consistently produces blue flowers, as a separate entity differing, in part, by petals having few to no marginal hairs, which, when present, have elongate terminal cells (in A. arvensis the petal margins have numerous gland-tipped, globose hairs), and by having flowering pedicels equaling or shorter than the subtending leaf.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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