Veronica beccabunga |
Veronica alpina |
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American brooklime, American speedwell, brooklime, European speedwell, véronique beccabunga |
alpine speedwell, véronique alpine |
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Habit | Perennials. | |
Stems | ascending, often dark bluish distally, sparsely branched at base, 5–15(–25) cm, eglandular-hairy. |
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Leaves | blade ovate or oblong-elliptic, 7–30 × 4–20 mm, base cuneate, margins indistinctly dentate or entire, apex short-acuminate, abaxial surface glabrate, adaxial ± hairy. |
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Racemes | 1, terminal, 5–20 mm, to 30 mm in fruit, (1–)3–20-flowered, axis eglandular-hairy; bracts oblanceolate, 4–5 mm. |
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Pedicels | ascending to erect, 1.5–2(–4) mm, shorter than subtending bract, eglandular-hairy. |
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Flowers | calyx lobes 3–4 mm, ciliate, apex obtuse or acuminate, eglandular-hairy; corolla sky blue or blue-violet, sometimes white, rotate, 2.5–5.5 mm diam.; stamens 2–2.3 mm; style 0.5–1.5(–2) mm. |
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Capsules | compressed in cross section, obovoid or oblong-obovoid, 4.5–7.5 × 3.5–5.5 mm, ca. as long as wide, apex shallowly emarginate, eglandular-hairy or glabrate. |
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Seeds | 9–53, brown to yellow, ellipsoid-oblong, flat, 0.7–1.2 × 0.4–1 mm, 0.1 mm thick, smooth. |
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2n | = 18. |
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Veronica beccabunga |
Veronica alpina |
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Phenology | Flowering (Jun–)Jul–Aug. | |
Habitat | Slopes, moist rocks, hillocks, moist alpine and subalpine meadows. | |
Elevation | 0–1000 m. (0–3300 ft.) | |
Distribution |
CA; CT; IL; MA; MD; ME; MI; MO; NJ; NV; NY; OH; PA; VA; WI; WV; BC; ON; QC; Eurasia; Africa [Introduced in North America; introduced also in s South America]
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NU; QC; Greenland; Eurasia |
Discussion | Subspecies 3 (1 in the flora). Subspecies abscondita M. A. Fischer is found from eastern Turkey to western Iran, while the native range of subsp. muscosa (Korshinsky) Elenevsky extends from eastern Iran to southern China. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 312. | FNA vol. 17, p. 309. |
Parent taxa | Plantaginaceae > Veronica | Plantaginaceae > Veronica |
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Synonyms | V. alpina subsp. australis, V. alpina var. australis, V. pumila | |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 12. (1753) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 11. (1753) |
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