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blue water speedwell

fringe-petal kittentails, fringed kittentails

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

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)
Sibling taxa
V. americana, V. argute-serrata, V. arvensis, V. catenata, V. chamaedrys, V. cusickii, V. dissecta, V. filiformis, V. hederifolia, V. ×lackschewitzii, V. longifolia, V. missurica, V. officinalis, V. peregrina, V. persica, V. polita, V. regina-nivalis, V. rubra, V. schizantha, V. scutellata, V. serpyllifolia, V. triphyllos, V. verna, V. wormskjoldii
V. americana, V. anagallis-aquatica, V. argute-serrata, V. arvensis, V. catenata, V. chamaedrys, V. cusickii, V. dissecta, V. filiformis, V. hederifolia, V. ×lackschewitzii, V. longifolia, V. missurica, V. officinalis, V. peregrina, V. persica, V. polita, V. regina-nivalis, V. rubra, V. scutellata, V. serpyllifolia, V. triphyllos, V. verna, V. wormskjoldii
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