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• Some of these have been introduced to this site but they are all grown from local Ryedale seed, and the pimpernel and corn spurrey at least appeared by themselves.
• As well as being a home to wildlife, it also has pockets of enchanted nightshade, yellow pimpernel and oak fern.
• Flowers, such as cornflowers, scarlet pimpernel and shepherd's needle, used to be a common sight in the county's cornfields 50 years ago, but today many are rare, or even extinct.
• Out from that trench, sometimes stealthily slipping between the flattened fern-stalks, came a weasel, and, running through the plantains and fringe-like mayweed or stray pimpernel which covered the neglected ground, made for the straw-rick. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
• I was quite hopeful as to the result, for my "crammer" again impressed me at the last moment with his entire conviction that I would pass with eclat; while, my good friend the vicar, who had given me the most flaming of testimonials, cheered me up with his cordial wishes for my success, as did also dear little Miss Pimpernell, in her customary impulsive way. She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.
• It occurs quite commonly in gardens and open fields, being the scarlet Pimpernel, or _Anagallis arvensis_, and belonging to the Primrose tribe of plants. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
• And out toward the old Ice House (now the Art Barn) are the rocks with the best view of the pounding surf and small clots of scarlet pimpernel tucked in, operating as the "poor man's weatherglass". UUpdates - All updates
• On muddier patches there is creeping jenny, a close relative of the pimpernel but quite unlike it. Times, Sunday Times
• Primroses grew in the grass around it and a small red flower that I thought must be pimpernel.
• Rare plants that occur or that have occurred here include heart leaf plantain, estuary beggar ticks, golden club, ovate spikerush, Parker's pipewort, Nuttall's micranthemum, Eaton's burmarigold, false pimpernel, winged monkey flower and swamp lousewort. Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve, New York