Veronica anagallis-aquatica |
Veronica schizantha |
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blue water speedwell |
fringe-petal kittentails, fringed kittentails |
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Habit | Glabrous, short-lived perennial from fibrous roots, the stems usually erect, 2-10 dm. tall. | Herbaceous perennial from a short, stout rhizome, the scape 1-3 dm. tall, villous-puberulent, as are the petioles. |
Leaves | Leaves opposite, sessile and clasping, elliptic-ovate to elliptic-oblong, 2-10 cm. long and 0.7-5 cm. wide, sharply serrate to entire. |
Leaves all basal, long-petiolate, the blades reniform-cordate to cordate-rotund, 4-12 cm. wide and long, palmately veined, with shallow lobes, the sinuses 5-15 mm. deep, the lobes again few-toothed. |
Flowers | Inflorescence of many-flowered racemes on long peduncles arising in the leaf axils; calyx of 4 highly variable sepals; corolla blue, rotate, 4-lobed, the upper lobe the largest, about 5 mm. wide; style 1.5-2.5 mm. long; pedicels up-curved, 3-8 mm. long; stamens 2. |
Inflorescence a terminal raceme; calyx of 4 sepals; corolla blue, 4-6 mm. long, the lobes spreading, much longer than the tube, deeply and irregularly laciniate; stamens 2; stigma capitate. |
Fruits | Capsule swollen, 2.5-4 mm. high and wide, scarcely notched. |
Capsule 3 mm. high and 6 mm. wide, notched. |
Veronica anagallis-aquatica |
Veronica schizantha |
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Flowering time | June-September | May-June |
Habitat | In or along slow-moving streams and ditches at low to moderate elevations. | Moist ground at mid-elevations in the mountains. |
Distribution | Occurring chiefly east of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east across North America to the Atlantic Coast.
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Occurring in the Olympics and Cascades mountains foothills of western Washington; Washington to Oregon.
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Origin | Introduced from Europe | Native |
Conservation status | Not of concern | Sensitive in Washington (WANHP) |
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