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American brooklime, American speedwell
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Glabrous, herbaceous perennial from creeping rhizomes, the simple stems ascending or sometimes erect, 1-10 dm. long. |
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Leaves opposite, all with short petioles, lanceolate to lance-ovate, or the lower elliptic, 1.5-8 cm. long and 0.6-3 cm. wide, serrate to nearly entire. |
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Inflorescence of open racemes on long peduncles arising in the leaf axils, 10-25 flowered; calyx of 4 sepals; corolla blue, rotate, 4-lobed, the upper lobe the largest, 5-19 mm. wide; style 2.5-3.5 mm. long; pedicels widely spreading, 5-14 mm. long; stamens 2. |
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Capsule swollen, about 3 mm. high and wide, slightly notched. |
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Veronica beccabunga |
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May-August |
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Ditches, slow moving streams, oxbows, and other water bodies, from low to middle elevations in the mountains. |
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Widely distributed on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to California, east across North America to the Atlantic Coast.
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Native |
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Not of concern |
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. scutellata, V. serpyllifolia, V. triphyllos, V. verna, V. wormskjoldii |
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. scutellata, V. serpyllifolia, V. triphyllos, V. verna, V. wormskjoldii |
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BC
Flora NW
PNW Herbaria
WildflowerSearch
iNaturalist
USDA Plants Database
CA
OR
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