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"I can show you that, if you can help me along."
— Pimpernel escaping the burrow with Holly

Pimpernel was one of the rabbits to escape from the Sandleford Warren destruction with Holly, Bluebell, and Toadflax as men were destroying it.

Novel[]

Bluebell discovered him during his own escape down a little used run that led into the forest and described him as being in a bad way, gasping from exposure to the poison that the men used to kill the rabbits. Once outside, he and Bluebell found Holly and Toadflax, and they made their way through the forest, following Holly's plan to find Bigwig and tell him that he had been right. During the journey's beginning, Pimpernel was described as light-headed, talking nonsense, and feverish, so it can be assumed that he has been significantly affected by the poison. Once they reached Cowslip's warren and asked the rabbits there for Fiver, Bigwig, and Hazel, they were attacked. Pimpernel, too ill and outnumbered, was killed in the attack.

TV series[]

In the television series, Pimpernel chooses to stay behind at Cowslip's Warren while Holly looks for Bigwig and the other Watership rabbits after escaping the destruction of Sandleford Warren. Sometime afterwards, Pimpernel ended up in a snare, and the rabbits of the Warren of the Shining Wires never spoke of him to Holly, Hazel, Bigwig, and Fiver until they later learned of Pimpernel's fate and the dark side of Cowslip's warren.

Rabbits
Cross-media
Sandleford Warren
BigwigBlackberryBluebellCaptain HollyDandelionFiverHawkbitHazelHazel and Fiver's MotherPipkinPimpernelSilverThrearahToadflax

Nuthanger Farm
BoxwoodCloverHaystackLaurel
Cowslip's Warren
CowslipKingcupLaburnumSilverweedStrawberry
Efrafa
BlackavarCaptain CampionCaptain ChervilCaptain OrchisCharlockGeneral WoundwortHyzenthlayRagwortSainfoinThethuthinnangThistleVervainVilthuril
Folklore
Black Rabbit of InléEl-ahrairahHufsaRabscuttle

Books only
Introduced in Watership Down
AcornAshAvensBartsiaBetonyBuckthornButterburCaptain BuglossCaptain MallowColtsfootFlescaGroundselMarjoramMoneywortNelthiltaNightshadeNildro-hainNose-in-the-AirPine NeedlesScabiousSnowdropSpeedwellThrayonlosaThrearThunder

Introduced in Tales from Watership Down
BurdockCelandineCrowfootCrowlaFescueFlyairthFoxgloveHeartseaseKing Fur-RociousKnapweedLemistaLoosestrifeMelsaMianMilmownNyreemPeertonPrakeQuiensRithlaSandwortStitchwortStonecropThrennionTindraWoodruff

AspenBlueskyButtercupCaptain BroomFelsparFlaxGentianGiliaGorseGraniteHeatherHickoryLarchMallowMarigoldMossPrimroseRaincloudRedShaleSnowdropSpartinaSpeaker of the PastLaurel
Film/Miniseries only
Dewdrop (Miniseries) • Nettle (Miniseries) • Violet (film)
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