Lindernia procumbens(Krock.) Philcox

prostrate false pimpernel

WFO wfo-0000446364 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Lindernia procumbens, photographed by chiuluan
fig. a chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-09-10 / obs. 157263160
Lindernia procumbens, photographed by Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky)
fig. b Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 99781759
Lindernia procumbens, photographed by 國立臺灣博物館
fig. c 國立臺灣博物館, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61457702
Lindernia procumbens, photographed by 葉子
fig. d 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 28421686
Lindernia procumbens, photographed by chiuluan
fig. e chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157263037
Lindernia procumbens, photographed by Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky)
fig. f Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 99781885
Lindernia procumbens, photographed by 國立臺灣博物館
fig. g 國立臺灣博物館, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61457711
Lindernia procumbens, photographed by 葉子
fig. h 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 28421698

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 56 botanical countries

Regions where Lindernia procumbens is native: Afghanistan, Altay, Amur, China South-Central, China Southeast, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Korea, Manchuria, Nansei-shoto, Primorye, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Uzbekistan, West Siberia, Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya, New South Wales, Queensland, Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Portugal, Romania, South European Russia, Switzerland, Ukraine, Marianas, Wallis-Futuna Is. AfghanistanAltayAmurChina South-CentralChina SoutheastInner MongoliaIranJapanKazakhstanKhabarovskManchuriaPrimoryeTadzhikistanTaiwanTranscaucasusTürkiyeUzbekistanWest SiberiaAssamBangladeshEast HimalayaIndiaJawaLaosMalayaMyanmarNepalPakistanSri LankaThailandVietnamWest HimalayaNew South WalesQueenslandAustriaBelarusBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaEast European RussiaFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyNW. Balkan Pen.PolandPortugalRomaniaSouth European RussiaSwitzerlandUkraine KoreaNansei-shotoMarianasWallis-Futuna Is.
Native distribution of Lindernia procumbens, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Altay ALT
Amur AMU
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Inner Mongolia CHI
Iran IRN
Japan JAP
Kazakhstan KAZ
Khabarovsk KHA
Korea KOR
Manchuria CHM
Nansei-shoto NNS
Primorye PRM
Tadzhikistan TZK
Taiwan TAI
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Uzbekistan UZB
West Siberia WSB
Austria AUT EUROPE
Belarus BLR
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
East European Russia RUE
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Portugal POR
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Bangladesh BAN
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Pakistan PAK
Sri Lanka SRL
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
New South Wales NSW AUSTRALASIA
Queensland QLD
Marianas MRN PACIFIC
Wallis-Futuna Is. WAL

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 45 in flower of 71 examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Lindernia procumbens observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 45 of 71 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 8 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 260 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -9.3 °C -1.6 °C 13.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 23.0 °C 27.9 °C 32.7 °C
Annual rainfall 547 mm 873 mm 3,758 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 35 mm 122 mm 524 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 260 research-grade observations of Lindernia procumbens that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 25 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • 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.

and 1 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.