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Pink Scarlet pimpernel Canvas Prints
Pink Scarlet pimpernel Canvas Prints
Scarlet pimpernel also known as red pimpernel, red chickweed, poor man’s barometer, poor man's weather-glass, shepherd's weather glass or shepherd's clock) is a low-growing annual plant. The native range of the species is Europe and Western Asia and North Africa.The species has been distributed widely by humans, either deliberately as an ornamental flower or accidentally. A. arvensis is now naturalised almost worldwide, with a range that encompasses the Americas, Central and East Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, Malesia, the Pacific Islands, Australasia and Southern Africa.Traditionally included in the family Primulaceae, the genus Anagallis was placed in the family My rsinaceae until that family in turn was included in Primulaceae in the APG III system. Angelis ardencies is generally unwelcome as a cosmopolitan invasive species; it is harmfully toxic in several respects and accordingly undesirable in pastures. Perhaps fortunately, the plant is acrid and bitter, and grazing livestock generally avoid eating it except in conditions of overgrazing or grazing of unsatisfying stubble. Experimental feeding of the plant material to various animals, such as horses and dogs, caused gastroenteritis. Sufficiently high doses proved fatal.Less specifically the herb has been reported as being toxic to poultry and rabbits, and the seed to birds.
