Anagallis arvensis two flowers mentioned in the Tirukkural. "The Scarlet Pimpernel" is the alias of Sir Percy Blakeney in the novel of the same name by Baroness Emma Orczy. Anagallis arvensis Scarlet pimpernel, commonly known as blue-scarlet pimpernel, red pimpernel, red chickweed, poorman'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,
Richard de Percy Richard de Percy Sir Richard de Percy (c. 1170-1244), 5th Baron Percy, was a Magnate from the North of England, and a participant in the First Barons' War. He was the son of Agnes de Perci, "suo jure" Baroness Percy, the heiress of the Percy estates, and her husband Joscelin of Louvain (1121–1180), who was styled "brother of the queen" (referring to Adeliza of Louvain, second wife of Henry I). It is from this marriage descends the House of Percy, following the assumption of the name Percy by Louvain. Percy was one of the twenty five barons appointed to enforce