Scarlet Tempernel Research Paper

The Scarlet Pimpernel is an annual herbaceous plant often considered a weed that reaches a height of 3-10cm, the semi prostrate stems spreading up to 40cm. Scarlet Pimpernel is often found growing in sandy soils, although it has been known to grow on clay based soil, grows in gardens, roadsides, waste ground, common land, pasture, and long rural driveways (It grows in the mile-long gravel drive close to the stables at my friend’s house). The highly branched square stems bear opposite sessile ovate to elliptic bright green leaves, glabrous to pubescent on the dorsal surface, densely pubescent with a prominent parallel venous system, and glandular-punctate (darkly spotted) on the ventral surface. The margins of each leaf are densely ciliate