Linderniaceae
Prostrate false pimpernel
Lindernia procumbens
- Family
- Linderniaceae
- Genus
- Lindernia
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Common names
By language (9)
- Chinese
- 棱萼母草, 母草, 白猪母菜, 陌上草, 陌上菜
- Czech
- Puštička pouzdernatá
- English
- Prostrate false pimpernel
- Finnish
- Rentohuulio
- French
- Lindernie couchée, Lindernie des marais, Lindernie pyxidaire, Lindernie rampante
- German
- Gewöhnliches Büchsenkraut
- Korean
- 밭둑외풀
- Slovenian
- Polegla lindernija
- Ukrainian
- Коробчанка простерта
Synonyms
- Anagalloides procumbens Krock.
- Bonnaya integrifolia Kostel.
- Gratiola inundata Kit. ex Spreng.
- Gratiola ocymifolia Vahl
- Ilyogeton nervosum (Hassk.) Hassk.
- Ilysanthes gratioloides Regel
- Lindernia erecta (Benth.) Bonati
- Lindernia gratioloides Poir. ex Steud.
- Lindernia inaperta Thore ex Maxim.
- Lindernia kitaibelii G.Don
- Lindernia nervosa (Hassk.) Koord.
- Lindernia palustris Hartmann
- Lindernia pyxidaria All.
- Lindernia pyxidaria var. grandiflora Maxim.
- Pyxidaria nervosa (Hassk.) Kuntze
- Pyxidaria procumbens (Krock.) Borbás
- Pyxidaria procumbens f. erecta Borbás
- Tittmannia erecta Benth.
- Torenia erecta Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.
- Torenia quinquenervis Llanos
- Torenia trichotoma Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.
- Vandellia erecta Benth.
- Vandellia nervosa (Hassk.) Benth.
- Vandellia pyxidaria (All.) Maxim.
- Vriesea nervosa Hassk.
Flowers
- In flower
- July to September (from 52 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Annual
- In the US and Canada
- Hawaii: introduced, Lower 48 states: introduced
Photos
FlowerPhoto: Milan Chytrý, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Milan Chytrý, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Milan Chytrý, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Milan Chytrý, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Show_ryu, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Flavien Saboureau, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Lachlan Copeland, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Enrico Blasutto, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: 國立臺灣博物館, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: 國立臺灣博物館, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky), CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Erik Simons, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.