Yellow Pimpernel

Yellow Pimpernel has yellow flowers typically with five petals, but sometimes with four or six petals with long pointed sepals. It is a low creeping hairless evergreen perennial, with rounded to lanceolate, opposite pale green leaves.

You can see the first flowers of Yellow Pimpernel in May, but it is late June before it is in full bloom, continuing into July. Yellow Pimpernel can flower as late as the end of August.

Yellow Pimpernel can be found in damp shady places, in damp deciduous woodlands and on the verges of tree-lined country lanes.

Yellow Pimpernel is native to Britain.

It is a widespread species throughout Britain.