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Veronica beccabunga

Veronica scutellata

grass-leaf speedwell, marsh speedwell, skullcap speedwell
Habit Usually glabrous perennial from shallow, creeping rhizomes, the stem erect to ascending, 1-4 dm. long.
Leaves

Leaves all opposite, sessile, linear to lanceolate, 2-8 cm. long and 2-15 mm. wide, usually entire.
Flowers

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

Veronica beccabunga

Veronica scutellata
Flowering time May-September
Habitat Wet places and open water, from the lowlands to middle elevations in the mountains.
Distribution
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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
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Origin Native
Conservation status Not of concern
Sibling taxa
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. 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
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