Scarlet Pimpernel
Anagallis arvensis
                    
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left Scarlet Pimpernel Flower Photograph right
 
2006 Photograph, Scarlet Pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis, Primrose family, Primulaceae), Occoquan Bay NWR, Woodbridge, Virginia, © 2020.
Not really scarlet but orange and purplish and there is also a blue form.  Also called "Poorman's Weatherglass" because its flowers close in bad weather.
Jian Zhe Li

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