NameThatPlant.net: Veronica longifolia

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Veronica longifolia FAMILY Plantaginaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

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(?) PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pseudolysimachion longifolium FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

COMMON NAME:
Garden Speedwell, Longleaf Speedwell

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Veronica longifolia FAMILY Plantaginaceae

(?) PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pseudolysimachion longifolium FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

1613

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Europe

CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite (bracts abruptly smaller, upper bracteal lvs often alternate)

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Deep blue
Bilaterally symmetrical
4 sepals
4-lobed rotate corolla
2 well exserted stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers in a terminal spike

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Capsule

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