| Author | L. | |
| Distribution | Mostly in the central and eastern Piedmont, scarce elsewhere. Occurs west to Haywood County and east to the Outer Banks of Dare County.
Native of Europe; in N.A. nearly throughout. | |
| Abundance | Uncommon to infrequent in the Piedmont, rare in the western Coastal Plain, and very rare to absent elsewhere. | |
| Habitat | Roadsides, garden weed, fallow cropfields, lawn weed, clearing in woods, weedy woods road, interdune marsh. | |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting April-October. | |
| Identification | Scarlet Pimpernel is usually multi-stemmed and no more than 6 inches tall. The leaves are ovate and sessile. The flowers grow singly on slender stalks, the 5 petals are usually salmon to vermilion (dull orange-red) in color, but rarely can be deep blue. | |
| Taxonomic Comments | Some molecular research placed it within Lysimachia, but a 2018 paper restored it back to Anagallis. Our species of Lysimachia all have yellow flowers, and Trientalis borealis has white flowers.
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| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | GNR | |
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