UW Burke Herbarium species comparison

The green links below add additional plants to the comparison table. Blue links lead to other Web sites.
enable glossary links

Veronica anagallis-aquatica

Veronica scutellata

blue water speedwell

grass-leaf speedwell, marsh speedwell, skullcap speedwell
Habit Glabrous, short-lived perennial from fibrous roots, the stems usually erect, 2-10 dm. tall. Usually glabrous perennial from shallow, creeping rhizomes, the stem erect to ascending, 1-4 dm. long.
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 opposite, sessile, linear to lanceolate, 2-8 cm. long and 2-15 mm. wide, usually entire.
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 of open racemes on long peduncles arising from the leaf axils, each raceme 5-20 flowered, the flowers on filiform pedicels 6-17 mm. long;

sepals 4;

corolla bluish, 6-10 mm. wide, rotate, 4-lobed, the upper lobe the largest;

style 2-4 mm. long;

stamens 2.
Fruits

Capsule swollen, 2.5-4 mm. high and wide, scarcely notched.

Capsule flattened, 2.5-4 mm. high, noticeably wider than high, broadly notched.

Veronica anagallis-aquatica

Veronica scutellata
Flowering time June-September May-September
Habitat In or along slow-moving streams and ditches at low to moderate elevations. Wet places and open water, from the lowlands to middle 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.
[WildflowerSearch map]
[BONAP county map]
Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to California, east to the Rocky Mountains, northern Great Plains, Great Lakes region, and eastern North America; Eurasia
[WildflowerSearch map]
[BONAP county map]
Origin Introduced from Europe Native
Conservation status Not of concern Not of concern
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. schizantha, V. serpyllifolia, V. triphyllos, V. verna, V. wormskjoldii
Web links 
Unless otherwise noted, all data comes from the University of Washington's Burke Herbarium.



Type/paste one or more Latin names into the boxes above; matching taxa will show up below the box as you type. You can use the up/down arrow keys to move through the list.

(If the plant you're looking for doesn't show up in the auto-complete list, that means it either isn't described in UW Burke Herbarium yet, or it's listed under a synonym.)

Choose a data source: Flora of North America, OregonFlora, UW Burke Herbarium

The species comparison tool is brought to you by:
Northwest Wildflowers