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Lindernia dubia (L.)Pennell var. dubia
Moistbank Pimpernel
Yellowseed False Pimpernel
Synonym(s): Capraria gratioloides
Florida native
An occasional herb of floodplain forests and riverbanks in the northern counties of Florida plus Volusia and Lee Counties. The range extends throughout most of the United States except the Rocky Mountains. Also found in British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
Leaves are opposite, entire, mostly sessile, and ovate to elliptic. Flowers are two-lipped with upper lip short and notched, lower lip is three-lobed. The lobes are white with purple to blue markings inside. The corolla tube is lavender, blue or white and 2.5-8mm (1/10 to 1/3 in.) long.
The variety dubia has pedicels that are shorter than the subtending bracts. Another variety - anagallidea - has pedicels that are distinctly longer than the subtending bracts and is also found throughout most of Florida.
Lindernia dubia is a member of the Linderniaceae - False Pimpernel family.
Other species of the Lindernia genus in the Wild Florida Photo database:
Lindernia grandiflora - SAVANNAH FALSE PIMPERNEL
Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants (Institute for Systemic Botany) profile for this species
iNaturalist profile for this species
USDA Plant Profile for this species
Date record last modified: Oct 20, 2023
