Lindernia dubia (Michx.) Pennell var. anagallidea (Michx.) Cooperr.

Slender False Pimpernel; Long Stalk False Pimpernel; Clasping False Pimpernel

Herb

Biennial

Vascular

Long Stalk False Pimpernel is a native herbaceous annual in the False Pimpernel family (Linderniaceae). It can be found throughout Alabama. Long Stalk False Pimpernel occurs on exposed sand or mud on the shores of ponds or lakes, in depression ponds, along streams and rivers, and in roadside ditches. It is an annual with slender arching or decumbent stems. The stems are glabrous, green or purplish-red in color, and branched mostly near the base. The leaves are opposite, sessile, the bases sometimes slightly clasping, glabrous, ovate to elliptic in outline, with toothed to nearly entire margins. Flowers are solitary from the axils of one of the pair of leaves at a node. The flower stalks are filiform and much longer than the subtending leaves. Each flower has 5 narrow sepals and a two-lipped corolla. The upper lip is 2-lobed and the lower lip is 3-lobed. The corolla is pale lavender to almost white in color. The fruit is a capsule. Yellow Seed False Pimpernel (Lindernia dubia (Linnaeus) Pennell var. dubia) is similar and often occurs in the same habitats. It has flower stalks that are shorter than or equal to the subtending leaves, and a more up-right growth form.—A. Diamond

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Native FACW+ (NWPL)

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